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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... had an immediate appreciation, for example, for the magical significance of the number three—“we three,” and the thrice-iterated “I'll do.” They responded very differently to night (“'ere the set of sun”),as well xxvi introduction.
... had an immediate appreciation, for example, for the magical significance of the number three—“we three,” and the thrice-iterated “I'll do.” They responded very differently to night (“'ere the set of sun”),as well xxvi introduction.
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William Shakespeare. sponded very differently to night (“'ere the set of sun”),as well as to darkness in daytime (“fog and filthy air”). Night was a thoroughly and notoriously unreliable,savagely dangerous period,full of active and ...
William Shakespeare. sponded very differently to night (“'ere the set of sun”),as well as to darkness in daytime (“fog and filthy air”). Night was a thoroughly and notoriously unreliable,savagely dangerous period,full of active and ...
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... night,/ And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell”(1.5.48‒49) is still resounding in our ears.Duncan may take her hand and gra- ciously join her in entering the castle.But no audience whatever can be similarly taken in. Other than ...
... night,/ And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell”(1.5.48‒49) is still resounding in our ears.Duncan may take her hand and gra- ciously join her in entering the castle.But no audience whatever can be similarly taken in. Other than ...
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... night nor day Hang upon his penthouse lid.22 He shall live a man forbid,23 Weary sev'n nights nine times nine24 Shall he dwindle,25 peak,26 and pine.27 15 20 Though his bark cannot be lost,28 25 Yet it shall. 12 at her back:witches could ...
... night nor day Hang upon his penthouse lid.22 He shall live a man forbid,23 Weary sev'n nights nine times nine24 Shall he dwindle,25 peak,26 and pine.27 15 20 Though his bark cannot be lost,28 25 Yet it shall. 12 at her back:witches could ...
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