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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xvi. oldal
... what part thereof, might have been in Shakespeare's own hand, or even whether those sources were accurate representations of what Shakespeare wrote, either in the probably first version of the play , xvi about this book.
... what part thereof, might have been in Shakespeare's own hand, or even whether those sources were accurate representations of what Shakespeare wrote, either in the probably first version of the play , xvi about this book.
xxxi. oldal
... hand , in process , is nowhere near so awful as we have thought , in only imagining it . Self - betrayal can virtu- ally be seen crossing over into the betrayal , and the murder , of his king . And Macbeth's next words provide all the ...
... hand , in process , is nowhere near so awful as we have thought , in only imagining it . Self - betrayal can virtu- ally be seen crossing over into the betrayal , and the murder , of his king . And Macbeth's next words provide all the ...
xxxii. oldal
... he declares in an aside , “ For in my way it lies . ” And then he calls for darkness , not light , to prevail . “ Let The eye wink at the hand . ” To which invocation he adds , at once : " Yet let that be / Which the xxxii INTRODUCTION.
... he declares in an aside , “ For in my way it lies . ” And then he calls for darkness , not light , to prevail . “ Let The eye wink at the hand . ” To which invocation he adds , at once : " Yet let that be / Which the xxxii INTRODUCTION.
xxxiv. oldal
... hand and gra- ciously join her in entering the castle . But no audience whatever can be similarly taken in . Other than scene 3 and its fuller presentation of the witches , containing as well as a substantial introduction to Macbeth and ...
... hand and gra- ciously join her in entering the castle . But no audience whatever can be similarly taken in . Other than scene 3 and its fuller presentation of the witches , containing as well as a substantial introduction to Macbeth and ...
xxxvi. oldal
... hand her the very key to his nature , asserting that “ I dare do all that may become a man . ” Without any hesitation whatever , she pounces on this weaseling excuse . I'd have killed the baby I was suckling , she proclaims , “ had I so ...
... hand her the very key to his nature , asserting that “ I dare do all that may become a man . ” Without any hesitation whatever , she pounces on this weaseling excuse . I'd have killed the baby I was suckling , she proclaims , “ had I so ...
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