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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xiv. oldal
... heard the text , not coming to a syntactic stop , but continuing to some later stop- ping point . To replace Folio commas with editorial periods is thus risky and on the whole an undesirable practice . The dra- matic action of a tragedy ...
... heard the text , not coming to a syntactic stop , but continuing to some later stop- ping point . To replace Folio commas with editorial periods is thus risky and on the whole an undesirable practice . The dra- matic action of a tragedy ...
xxvii. oldal
... heard about Macbeth , but the witches have just announced his coming ( saying nothing of Banquo ) —and their powers of prediction are , as they are meant to be , uncanny ( “ uncomfortably unnatural ” ) . It is left to Banquo to register ...
... heard about Macbeth , but the witches have just announced his coming ( saying nothing of Banquo ) —and their powers of prediction are , as they are meant to be , uncanny ( “ uncomfortably unnatural ” ) . It is left to Banquo to register ...
xxix. oldal
... heard enough to smell a rat , and to pretty specifically identify the filthy beast . Equivocation was emphatically blowing in the wind . And Mac- beth's response ? He speaks nine full lines , full of intensely self - ab- sorbed demands ...
... heard enough to smell a rat , and to pretty specifically identify the filthy beast . Equivocation was emphatically blowing in the wind . And Mac- beth's response ? He speaks nine full lines , full of intensely self - ab- sorbed demands ...
xxx. oldal
... heard by anyone onstage not meant by the speaker to 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 ...
... heard by anyone onstage not meant by the speaker to 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 ...
xxxii. oldal
... 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 , but to Macbeth it is devastating . If a tree falls ...
... 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 , but to Macbeth it is devastating . If a tree falls ...
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