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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xx. oldal
... become largely figureheads , in our time ; they were still , in Shakespeare's age , the acknowledged fulcrum on which society depended and by means of whom it functioned and sur- vived . England had been through almost a century of ...
... become largely figureheads , in our time ; they were still , in Shakespeare's age , the acknowledged fulcrum on which society depended and by means of whom it functioned and sur- vived . England had been through almost a century of ...
xxi. oldal
... become treat- ment , style , approach . Betrayal , in particular , runs like a vital bloodline through both the story and the language of Macbeth . It has often been noted that the movement of language , in the po- etry of the play ...
... become treat- ment , style , approach . Betrayal , in particular , runs like a vital bloodline through both the story and the language of Macbeth . It has often been noted that the movement of language , in the po- etry of the play ...
xxxii. oldal
... become the past . We can thus see why , as scene 4 opens , Malcolm tells the pun- gent tale of the prior Thane of Cawdor's graveside repentance . “ Nothing in his life / Became him like the leaving it ” ( 1.4.7–8 ) . Unlike the high ...
... become the past . We can thus see why , as scene 4 opens , Malcolm tells the pun- gent tale of the prior Thane of Cawdor's graveside repentance . “ Nothing in his life / Became him like the leaving it ” ( 1.4.7–8 ) . Unlike the high ...
xxxvi. oldal
... become king , Mac- beth is not a man much beholden to public opinion . It is hard to think of him , even in this first act , as even vaguely resembling an honest man . We have seen and heard too much meanness and ly- ing . If we assume ...
... become king , Mac- beth is not a man much beholden to public opinion . It is hard to think of him , even in this first act , as even vaguely resembling an honest man . We have seen and heard too much meanness and ly- ing . If we assume ...
xxxvii. oldal
... become king . That is not only what he does , it is in the nature of things the only thing he can do , the only thing he can accept . Notes 1. Keith Thomas , Religion and the Decline of Magic : Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth ...
... become king . That is not only what he does , it is in the nature of things the only thing he can do , the only thing he can accept . Notes 1. Keith Thomas , Religion and the Decline of Magic : Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth ...
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