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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x. oldal
... English across to ours. 1 (i.e., the king) 2 but to be = without being 3 to be THUS is NOThing BUT to be SAFEly THUS 4 of 5 stab,thrust 6 royalty of nature = majestic character 7 predominates 8 should 9 in addition to 10 dauntless ...
... English across to ours. 1 (i.e., the king) 2 but to be = without being 3 to be THUS is NOThing BUT to be SAFEly THUS 4 of 5 stab,thrust 6 royalty of nature = majestic character 7 predominates 8 should 9 in addition to 10 dauntless ...
xi. oldal
... English ( ca. 1600 ) and the Modern English now current , those languages are too close for those who know only one language , and not the other , to be readily able always to recognize what they correctly understand and what they do ...
... English ( ca. 1600 ) and the Modern English now current , those languages are too close for those who know only one language , and not the other , to be readily able always to recognize what they correctly understand and what they do ...
xii. oldal
... English is not yet so old that it requires , like many historical texts in French and German , or like Old English texts — for example , Beowulf — a modern transla– tion . Much poetry evaporates in translation : language is im- mensely ...
... English is not yet so old that it requires , like many historical texts in French and German , or like Old English texts — for example , Beowulf — a modern transla– tion . Much poetry evaporates in translation : language is im- mensely ...
xvi. oldal
... English have been added, in parentheses • Annotations of repeated words are not repeated. Explanations of the first instance of such common words are followed by the sign✭. Readers may easily track down the first annotation, using the ...
... English have been added, in parentheses • Annotations of repeated words are not repeated. Explanations of the first instance of such common words are followed by the sign✭. Readers may easily track down the first annotation, using the ...
xx. oldal
... Queen Elizabeth had been the target of many assassination plots ; so too had James VI of Scotland , who in 1603 ascended to the English throne as James I and thus became , on the international stage , both XX INTRODUCTION.
... Queen Elizabeth had been the target of many assassination plots ; so too had James VI of Scotland , who in 1603 ascended to the English throne as James I and thus became , on the international stage , both XX INTRODUCTION.
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annotations Apparition Banquo beth bird blood Burton Raffel castle enter Christian crown dagger dare dead death deed devil died hereafter Doctor Donalbain Duncan Dunsinane England English ENTER LADY MACBETH enter Macbeth equivocator evil EXEUNT EXIT father fear fight Fleance Gentlewoman Give Glamis gnostic Gunpowder Plot hail Hamlet hand hath hear heart heaven Hecat hell honor horror Iago imagination Jesuits killed King Lear King of Scotland knock Lady Macbeth Lady Macduff Lennox look lord Macbeth and Banquo Macbeth Macbeth Macbeth's castle Macduff's son magic Malcolm meaning mind Moby-Dick Murderer nature night noun play Porter proleptic royal scene Scotland Scottish nobleman seems sense Servant Seyton Shake Shakespeare Shakespeare's audience Siward sleep soldier speak strange supernatural Thane of Cawdor thee things thou thought tomorrow University Press verb Weird Sisters wife Wilson Knight witches words worthy Young Siward