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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... King of Scotland , 11th cent . — Drama . 3. Scotland - Drama . I. Raffel , Burton . PR2823.A2R34 2005 2. Regicides — Drama . II . Bloom , Harold . III . Title . 822.3'3 — dc22 2004024959 A catalogue record for this book is available ...
... King of Scotland , 11th cent . — Drama . 3. Scotland - Drama . I. Raffel , Burton . PR2823.A2R34 2005 2. Regicides — Drama . II . Bloom , Harold . III . Title . 822.3'3 — dc22 2004024959 A catalogue record for this book is available ...
Strana x
... king) 2 but to be = without being 3 to be THUS is NOThing BUT to be SAFEly THUS 4 of 5 stab,thrust 6 royalty of nature = majestic character 7 predominates 8 should 9 in addition to 10 dauntless temper = Some readers , to be sure , will ...
... king) 2 but to be = without being 3 to be THUS is NOThing BUT to be SAFEly THUS 4 of 5 stab,thrust 6 royalty of nature = majestic character 7 predominates 8 should 9 in addition to 10 dauntless temper = Some readers , to be sure , will ...
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... king , his friends , his country , and to God — so , too , is the 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 ...
... king , his friends , his country , and to God — so , too , is the 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 ...
Strana xx
... king- dom . Catholic dissidents were the known and indisputable insti- gators of this barely foiled attempt , as ... Kings have become largely figureheads , in our time ; they were still , in Shakespeare's age , the acknowledged fulcrum ...
... king- dom . Catholic dissidents were the known and indisputable insti- gators of this barely foiled attempt , as ... Kings have become largely figureheads , in our time ; they were still , in Shakespeare's age , the acknowledged fulcrum ...
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... kings , and of many earthly dwellers , be- comes in this play a kind of infection of language itself . At times , indeed , it almost seems as if Shakespeare is so at one with his sub- ject that he finds it hard to say virtually anything ...
... kings , and of many earthly dwellers , be- comes in this play a kind of infection of language itself . At times , indeed , it almost seems as if Shakespeare is so at one with his sub- ject that he finds it hard to say virtually anything ...
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