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
... less Shakespeare's contempo- raries , and we are not . Accordingly , when the original printed text uses a comma , we are being signaled that they ( whoever “ they ” were ) heard the text , not coming to a syntactic stop , but ...
... less Shakespeare's contempo- raries , and we are not . Accordingly , when the original printed text uses a comma , we are being signaled that they ( whoever “ they ” were ) heard the text , not coming to a syntactic stop , but ...
xxviii. oldal
... less direct, Banquo will rise to “get kings, though thou be none”(1.3.68).Lineage was a profoundly serious matter in Shake- speare's time. Fathers understood that they lived on, after death, primarily in their children, most ...
... less direct, Banquo will rise to “get kings, though thou be none”(1.3.68).Lineage was a profoundly serious matter in Shake- speare's time. Fathers understood that they lived on, after death, primarily in their children, most ...
xxx. oldal
... Less plain , perhaps , is the fact that what must come next is the murder of the king . This is wonderfully highlighted by having Macbeth first thank Ross for the welcome news and then immediately turn to Banquo and discuss ascendance ...
... Less plain , perhaps , is the fact that what must come next is the murder of the king . This is wonderfully highlighted by having Macbeth first thank Ross for the welcome news and then immediately turn to Banquo and discuss ascendance ...
xxxi. oldal
... less than horrible imaginings ” ( 1.3.137– 138 ) . That is , a deed in 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 ...
... less than horrible imaginings ” ( 1.3.137– 138 ) . That is , a deed in 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 ...
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