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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... mind , He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valor To act in safety . There is none but he Whose being I do fear and , under him , My genius is rebuked , as it is said Mark Antony's was by Caesar . ( lines 48–57 ) This was perfectly ...
... mind , He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valor To act in safety . There is none but he Whose being I do fear and , under him , My genius is rebuked , as it is said Mark Antony's was by Caesar . ( lines 48–57 ) This was perfectly ...
Strana x
... mind, He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valor To act in safety. There is none but he Whose being11 I do fear and, under12 him, My genius is rebuked,13 as it is said Mark Antony's was by Caesar. The modern reader or listener may well ...
... mind, He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valor To act in safety. There is none but he Whose being11 I do fear and, under12 him, My genius is rebuked,13 as it is said Mark Antony's was by Caesar. The modern reader or listener may well ...
Strana xiv
... mind responsible for that punctuating hears the text . And twenty - first - century minds have no business , in such matters , overruling seventeenth - century ones . Whoever the com- positors were , they were more or less Shakespeare's ...
... mind responsible for that punctuating hears the text . And twenty - first - century minds have no business , in such matters , overruling seventeenth - century ones . Whoever the com- positors were , they were more or less Shakespeare's ...
Strana xxii
... minds, immensely practical and often terrible dangers. The groundwork for witchery, in that world- view, has been vividly evoked by Thomas:“Instead of being re- garded as an inanimate mass, the Earth itself was deemed to be alive. The ...
... minds, immensely practical and often terrible dangers. The groundwork for witchery, in that world- view, has been vividly evoked by Thomas:“Instead of being re- garded as an inanimate mass, the Earth itself was deemed to be alive. The ...
Strana xxxii
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