The Garden of Doubts

The garden of doubts is a novel by Fernando Savater of 1993, set in the Spain of the eighteenth century and the enlightened thoughts of the writer Voltaire. Finalist of the Planeta Prize of the same year. Argument It is the story of a French lady established in Spain by the name of Carolina de Beauregard, Countess of Montoro, who, after admitting her high degree of boredom by living in a "Madrid that is not capital or anything that resembles her simple people, full of flies, of shit, of prayers, of cures, of females with no brain or training, yawning behind their bars of gañanes, cloaked, who think only of the misdeeds of the bandits and the thrusts of the slayers, " decides to send a letter to the intellectual Voltaire in order that he does not let her die of boredom and tell her story as a philosopher and thinker, but especially as a man.

From this moment begins a broad exchange of correspondence between both characters in which Voltaire will expose his thinking, his intellectual battles, his prison sentences, exile, his fight against religious fanaticism and its humanitarian causes. >

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