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How did Paul Klee illustrate Voltaireās Candide?
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Paul Klee illustrated Voltaireās satirical novel Candide between 1911 and 1912. These drawings are considered among his most accomplished early works. To capture the humor and universality of the satire, Klee reduced the characters, settings, and various details of the story into comic flurries of lines.1