Just published: Complete Works of Voltaire, vol.84, Fragments divers

Œuvres complètes de Voltaire, vol.84
Fragments divers
Ed. Gillian Pink, John Renwick et al.
Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2020
ISBN 978-0-7294-1153-0, hb, xxii+408 pp.

This volume brings together a range of miscellaneous short texts by Voltaire, mostly undated and principally manuscript fragments. From thoughts on the souls of animals, to how he organised his papers to a joke proxy granting unlimited powers to act on his behalf, these scraps shed light on Voltaire’s working methods and on the possible subjects of texts that he never published. Most notably, it contains a supplement adding nineteen fragments to the edition of Voltaire’s Notebooks (OCV, vol.81-82).

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Stephen Ashworth
Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford, UK

http://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk