![]() ![]() ![]() The problem of the author is to provide the main character or characters with an inciting incident and then to start him or them off on the road to adventure. But basically the structure of Candide is that of the picaresque narrative. Related works certainly include the late Greek romances, filled as they were with melodramatic incidents involving the separation of families and lovers, shipwrecks, near-miraculous reunions and discoveries the pastoral romances, many of which included just this sort of material, and the heroic-gallant romance. These became the source of such decadent Latin works as Apulius' Golden Ass and Petronius' Satyrican, copies of which Voltaire had in his library. The narrative technique used by Voltaire in Candide dates back as far as the Milesian tales, which were short, erotic narratives first collected in the second century. ![]()
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