MacbethYale University Press, 1. 1. 2005 - Počet stran: 210 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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Strana xix
... witches , in this play , is in no way extrinsic : Mac- beth is drawn to them , and they appear to him , because the evil aspects of his nature far outweigh the good ones . His path , from the beginning , is headed toward evil . Not only ...
... witches , in this play , is in no way extrinsic : Mac- beth is drawn to them , and they appear to him , because the evil aspects of his nature far outweigh the good ones . His path , from the beginning , is headed toward evil . Not only ...
Strana xx
... witches ' brew , but in a very real sense he has invoked ( as he soon will perform ) just such profound immorality . It is apparent that evil in Macbeth's world has social and theological roots . Iago is utterly alone , but Macbeth has ...
... witches ' brew , but in a very real sense he has invoked ( as he soon will perform ) just such profound immorality . It is apparent that evil in Macbeth's world has social and theological roots . Iago is utterly alone , but Macbeth has ...
Strana xxi
... witches and witchcraft . A witch , in Keith Thomas's useful definition , " was a person of either sex ( but more often female ) who could myste- riously injure other people . " There are two basic components , here : ( 1 ) the ...
... witches and witchcraft . A witch , in Keith Thomas's useful definition , " was a person of either sex ( but more often female ) who could myste- riously injure other people . " There are two basic components , here : ( 1 ) the ...
Strana xxii
... witches, without ex- ception, were intending to accomplish. Yet the “white,” or “good,” witch can more usefully be termed a magic worker of a wholly different sort—a sorcerer or perhaps a magician. The great majority of witches clearly ...
... witches, without ex- ception, were intending to accomplish. Yet the “white,” or “good,” witch can more usefully be termed a magic worker of a wholly different sort—a sorcerer or perhaps a magician. The great majority of witches clearly ...
Strana xxiii
... witch - ridden society , ” such profoundly emotional matters are never clearly separable and self - contained.4 ... witches frequently exactly mirrored , in their own fashion , many of the rites and ceremonies of the Church . “ The ...
... witch - ridden society , ” such profoundly emotional matters are never clearly separable and self - contained.4 ... witches frequently exactly mirrored , in their own fashion , many of the rites and ceremonies of the Church . “ The ...
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