MacbethYale University Press, 2005. jan. 1. - 210 oldal In this new translation of Voltaire's Candide, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the French novel's irreverent spirit and offers a vivid, contemporary version of the 250-year-old text. Raffel re-creates Voltaire's stylistic brilliance by casting the novel into an English idiom that, had Voltaire been a twenty-first-century American, he might himself have employed. The translation is immediate and unencumbered, and for the first time makes Voltaire the satirist a wicked pleasure for English-speaking readers. Candide recounts the fantastically improbable travels, adventures, and misfortunes of the young Candide, his beloved Cungegonde, and his devoutly optimistic tutor Pangloss. Endowed at the start with good fortune and every prospect for happiness and success, the characters nevertheless encounter every conceivable misfortune. Voltaire's philosophical tale, in part an ironic attack on the optimistic thinking of such figures as Gottfried Leibniz and Alexander Pope, has proved enormously influential over the years. In a general introduction to this volume, historian Johnson Kent Wright places Candide in the contexts of Voltaire's life and work and the Age of Enlightenment. |
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... England also knew vivid , horrific details of the deadly evil known as the Gunpowder Plot , literally meant to blow up the king and , with him , virtually every important political figure in the king- dom . Catholic dissidents were the ...
... England also knew vivid , horrific details of the deadly evil known as the Gunpowder Plot , literally meant to blow up the king and , with him , virtually every important political figure in the king- dom . Catholic dissidents were the ...
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... England , as the brand and trademark of evil and threaten- ing Jesuitical language — can thus appear to us , in the early twenty - first century , every bit as bedeviling as the words of equivocators seemed to the men and women of the ...
... England , as the brand and trademark of evil and threaten- ing Jesuitical language — can thus appear to us , in the early twenty - first century , every bit as bedeviling as the words of equivocators seemed to the men and women of the ...
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... England's Protestant services ) . Tresham was a leader of this new conspiracy but in the end could not accept that it would result in the death of many of his relatives . He wrote warningly to his Protestant brother - in- law , Baron ...
... England's Protestant services ) . Tresham was a leader of this new conspiracy but in the end could not accept that it would result in the death of many of his relatives . He wrote warningly to his Protestant brother - in- law , Baron ...
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... England ( New York : Oxford University Press , 1997 ) , 436 . 2. David Cressy , Birth , Marriage and Death : Ritual , Religion , and the Life- Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1997 ) , 65 . 3 ...
... England ( New York : Oxford University Press , 1997 ) , 436 . 2. David Cressy , Birth , Marriage and Death : Ritual , Religion , and the Life- Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1997 ) , 65 . 3 ...
xl. oldal
... England was largely an oral culture, actors learned their parts rapidly and retained them intact for years. This was repertory theater, regularly repeating popular plays and introducing some new ones each year. • Women were not ...
... England was largely an oral culture, actors learned their parts rapidly and retained them intact for years. This was repertory theater, regularly repeating popular plays and introducing some new ones each year. • Women were not ...
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