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. |
Részletek a könyvből
1 - 5 találat összesen 25 találatból.
xiv. oldal
... hears the text . And twenty - first - century minds have no business , in such matters , overruling seventeenth - century ones . Whoever the com- positors were , they were more or less Shakespeare's contempo- raries , and we are not ...
... hears the text . And twenty - first - century minds have no business , in such matters , overruling seventeenth - century ones . Whoever the com- positors were , they were more or less Shakespeare's contempo- raries , and we are not ...
xxx. oldal
... hear ) , gives still further evidence of deceit and treachery . “ Glamis , and Thane of Cawdor . / The greatest is be- hind ” ( 1.3.116‒117 ) . The implication is starkly plain : Macbeth intends , and has intended , to do still more by ...
... hear ) , gives still further evidence of deceit and treachery . “ Glamis , and Thane of Cawdor . / The greatest is be- hind ” ( 1.3.116‒117 ) . The implication is starkly plain : Macbeth intends , and has intended , to do still more by ...
xxxi. oldal
... hear ? But if this is all truly good , why , he asks himself , in language fantastic and opaque , “ do I yield to that suggestion / Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair / And make my seated heart knock at my ribs , / Against the use of ...
... hear ? But if this is all truly good , why , he asks himself , in language fantastic and opaque , “ do I yield to that suggestion / Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair / And make my seated heart knock at my ribs , / Against the use of ...
xxxii. oldal
... hear at once from Macbeth himself . Macbeth has just heard , from the king's mouth , that Malcolm is now the proclaimed heir to the throne . The news should not be dreadfully surprising to someone as “ humble ” as Macbeth pretends to be ...
... hear at once from Macbeth himself . Macbeth has just heard , from the king's mouth , that Malcolm is now the proclaimed heir to the throne . The news should not be dreadfully surprising to someone as “ humble ” as Macbeth pretends to be ...
xli. oldal
... hear , plainly gave dramatic performances very careful , detailed attention . For some closer examination of such matters , see Burton Raffel , “ Who Heard the Rhymes and How : Shakespeare's Dramaturgical Signals , ” Oral Tradition 11 ...
... hear , plainly gave dramatic performances very careful , detailed attention . For some closer examination of such matters , see Burton Raffel , “ Who Heard the Rhymes and How : Shakespeare's Dramaturgical Signals , ” Oral Tradition 11 ...
Más kiadások - Összes megtekintése
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
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