Candide, ou l'Optimisme ( kon-DEED, French: [kɑ̃did] (listen)) is a French satire first published in …
a bit more opaque than micromegas
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and seemed in the end to be a promotion of the protestant work ethic. Or is the juxtaposition of that to the absurdist philosophy in the rest of the story meant to imply that both options are equally absurd?
Not sure. Voltaire still throwing shade at his contemporaries though.