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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... deed serve as a major handbook for later witch hunters. In En- gland, in 1689, the licensing of midwives still required an oath “that you shall not in any wise use or exercise any manner of witchcraft, charm or sorcery.”2 Those who ...
... deed serve as a major handbook for later witch hunters. In En- gland, in 1689, the licensing of midwives still required an oath “that you shall not in any wise use or exercise any manner of witchcraft, charm or sorcery.”2 Those who ...
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... 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 , and the murder , of his king . And Macbeth's next words provide ...
... 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 , and the murder , of his king . And Macbeth's next words provide ...
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... deed . Macbeth's stumbling reply to her question about when the king “ goes hence " is reluctant rather than truly hesitant : “ Tomor- row , as he purposes ” ( 1.5.58 ) . Had he said simply “ tomorrow , ” it would not have been an ...
... deed . Macbeth's stumbling reply to her question about when the king “ goes hence " is reluctant rather than truly hesitant : “ Tomor- row , as he purposes ” ( 1.5.58 ) . Had he said simply “ tomorrow , ” it would not have been an ...
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... deed in every eye . ” ( 1.7.21 , 24 ) . Macbeth is interrupted by his wife , demanding to know , “ Why have you left the chamber ? ” He naturally equivocates : “ Hath he asked for me ? ” ( 1.7.30–31 ) . This is rather a dull - witted ...
... deed in every eye . ” ( 1.7.21 , 24 ) . Macbeth is interrupted by his wife , demanding to know , “ Why have you left the chamber ? ” He naturally equivocates : “ Hath he asked for me ? ” ( 1.7.30–31 ) . This is rather a dull - witted ...
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... deeds; witches' powers of flight were fully operative in the dark, but diminished or blocked by ordinary daylight, which was unmistakably overwhelmed, on this particular day, by “fog and filthy air.” This is esoteric knowledge, in our ...
... deeds; witches' powers of flight were fully operative in the dark, but diminished or blocked by ordinary daylight, which was unmistakably overwhelmed, on this particular day, by “fog and filthy air.” This is esoteric knowledge, in our ...
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