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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... particular words will easily find clear , simple definitions in any modern dictionary . But most read- ers are not likely to understand Shakespeare's intended meaning , absent such glosses as I here offer . My annotation practices have ...
... particular words will easily find clear , simple definitions in any modern dictionary . But most read- ers are not likely to understand Shakespeare's intended meaning , absent such glosses as I here offer . My annotation practices have ...
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... particular . The sheer sound of Dante in thirteenth - cen- tury Italian is profoundly worth preserving . So too is the sound of Shakespeare . I have annotated prosody ( metrics ) only when it seemed truly necessary or particularly ...
... particular . The sheer sound of Dante in thirteenth - cen- tury Italian is profoundly worth preserving . So too is the sound of Shakespeare . I have annotated prosody ( metrics ) only when it seemed truly necessary or particularly ...
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... - ences cannot be lightly substituted for what is , after a fashion , the closest thing to a Shakespeare manuscript we are likely ever to have . We do not know whether these particular seventeenth- xiii ABOUT THIS BOOK.
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... particular kind of syntactic stop we associate , today , with the colon . It is therefore inappropriate to substitute editorial commas for Folio colons . It is also inappropriate to employ edito- rial colons when their syntactic usage ...
... particular kind of syntactic stop we associate , today , with the colon . It is therefore inappropriate to substitute editorial commas for Folio colons . It is also inappropriate to employ edito- rial colons when their syntactic usage ...
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... particular words and passages.We do not know whether these particular seventeenth- century typesetters tried to follow their handwritten sources. Nor do we know if those sources, or what part thereof, might have been in Shakespeare's ...
... particular words and passages.We do not know whether these particular seventeenth- century typesetters tried to follow their handwritten sources. Nor do we know if those sources, or what part thereof, might have been in Shakespeare's ...
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