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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... early Modern 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 ...
... early Modern 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 ...
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... early twenty - first century , every bit as bedeviling as the words of equivocators seemed to the men and women of the early seven- teenth century . We are not as shocked ( or as betrayed ) as England then felt itself . But we can often ...
... early twenty - first century , every bit as bedeviling as the words of equivocators seemed to the men and women of the early seven- teenth century . We are not as shocked ( or as betrayed ) as England then felt itself . But we can often ...
xxiii. oldal
... early medieval Christian Church [ was ] alerted to the bene- fits of the emotional charge certain sorts of magic offered and tried hard to nourish and encourage this form of energy . ” ' 5 That is , " If the old heathen beliefs died so ...
... early medieval Christian Church [ was ] alerted to the bene- fits of the emotional charge certain sorts of magic offered and tried hard to nourish and encourage this form of energy . ” ' 5 That is , " If the old heathen beliefs died so ...
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... Early seventeenth - century ears immediately recognized the echoing of earlier witch words and knew exactly what that replication indi- cated . To this point , the audience has only heard about Macbeth , but the witches have just ...
... Early seventeenth - century ears immediately recognized the echoing of earlier witch words and knew exactly what that replication indi- cated . To this point , the audience has only heard about Macbeth , but the witches have just ...
xxxvii. oldal
... Early Modern Europe ( New York : Oxford University Press , 1975 ) , 116 . 5. Valerie I. J. Flint , The Rise of Magic in Early Medieval Europe ( Princeton , N.J .: Princeton University Press , 1991 ) , 4 . 6. G. G. Coulton , Five ...
... Early Modern Europe ( New York : Oxford University Press , 1975 ) , 116 . 5. Valerie I. J. Flint , The Rise of Magic in Early Medieval Europe ( Princeton , N.J .: Princeton University Press , 1991 ) , 4 . 6. G. G. Coulton , Five ...
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