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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... persons who paid to watch Elizabethan 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 ...
... persons who paid to watch Elizabethan 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 ...
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... person is apt to have , the German speaker will not identify “ kofer ” ( “ trunk ” in Dutch ) with “ Kör- per ” —a modern German word meaning “ physique , build , body . ” The closest word to “ kofer ” in modern German , indeed , is ...
... person is apt to have , the German speaker will not identify “ kofer ” ( “ trunk ” in Dutch ) with “ Kör- per ” —a modern German word meaning “ physique , build , body . ” The closest word to “ kofer ” in modern German , indeed , is ...
Strana xxi
... person of either sex ( but more often female ) who could myste- riously injure other people . " There are two basic components , here : ( 1 ) the supernatural ( “ mysterious , unnatural ” ) nature of what witches do, and (2) the doing ...
... person of either sex ( but more often female ) who could myste- riously injure other people . " There are two basic components , here : ( 1 ) the supernatural ( “ mysterious , unnatural ” ) nature of what witches do, and (2) the doing ...
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... persons [ witches , etc. ] . . . without dispelling the emotions and expectations which had sus- tained them . . . The old demons persisted into the Middle Ages . . . and occupied a prominent place . . . , partly because there was a ...
... persons [ witches , etc. ] . . . without dispelling the emotions and expectations which had sus- tained them . . . The old demons persisted into the Middle Ages . . . and occupied a prominent place . . . , partly because there was a ...
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... person and [ the ] state , more than all the sects of the world , if no execution shall follow upon the traitorous prac- ticers . " 11 King James had a longstanding and profound , even profes- sional , interest in witches and witchery ...
... person and [ the ] state , more than all the sects of the world , if no execution shall follow upon the traitorous prac- ticers . " 11 King James had a longstanding and profound , even profes- sional , interest in witches and witchery ...
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