[juju]

Well, i've never read the whole thing, just parts of it in class. But I was told that Voltaire wrote Candide as a satire on Optimisim.

Here's a few examples:

http://www.ericjonas.com/features/ca...sm/default.asp

http://humanities.uchicago.edu/homes....est.bien.html

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/hum_303/voltaire.html