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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... plays . But who today can make much sense of it ? In this very fully annotated edition , I therefore present this passage , not in the bare form quoted above , but thoroughly supported by bottom - of - the - page notes : To be thus1 is ...
... plays . But who today can make much sense of it ? In this very fully annotated edition , I therefore present this passage , not in the bare form quoted above , but thoroughly supported by bottom - of - the - page notes : To be thus1 is ...
xvi. oldal
... or what part thereof, might have been in Shakespeare's own hand, or even whether those sources were accurate representations of what Shakespeare wrote, either in the probably first version of the play , xvi about this book.
... or what part thereof, might have been in Shakespeare's own hand, or even whether those sources were accurate representations of what Shakespeare wrote, either in the probably first version of the play , xvi about this book.
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William Shakespeare. either in the probably first version of the play , in 1606 , or in the later , revised versions that appear to have been produced . There can be ( and has been ) no end to speculation . INTRODUCTION L ike Hamlet ...
William Shakespeare. either in the probably first version of the play , in 1606 , or in the later , revised versions that appear to have been produced . There can be ( and has been ) no end to speculation . INTRODUCTION L ike Hamlet ...
xix. oldal
... play steeped in both evil and betrayal . The villain of Othello , Iago , is arguably even more unmitigatedly evil , yet his is evil of an inex- plicable , deeply individual nature . We have no idea what moti- vates Iago to be what he is ...
... play steeped in both evil and betrayal . The villain of Othello , Iago , is arguably even more unmitigatedly evil , yet his is evil of an inex- plicable , deeply individual nature . We have no idea what moti- vates Iago to be what he is ...
xx. oldal
... play , when the three witches take the stage — commanding it , for they have it completely to themselves — Shakespeare's audience was fully aware that the dra- matic force of these three presences originated from a fiercely dangerous ...
... play , when the three witches take the stage — commanding it , for they have it completely to themselves — Shakespeare's audience was fully aware that the dra- matic force of these three presences originated from a fiercely dangerous ...
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