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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... standing a text written in their own language five , or six , or seven hundred years earlier . Shakespeare's English is not yet so old that it requires , like many historical texts in French and German , or like Old English texts — for ...
... standing a text written in their own language five , or six , or seven hundred years earlier . Shakespeare's English is not yet so old that it requires , like many historical texts in French and German , or like Old English texts — for ...
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... standing and the scene's lofty rhetoric at high levels . Let us step back , for a moment , to the intentionally very differ- ent language of scene 1 and the first portion of scene 3. How re- create , for a modern audience , what was for ...
... standing and the scene's lofty rhetoric at high levels . Let us step back , for a moment , to the intentionally very differ- ent language of scene 1 and the first portion of scene 3. How re- create , for a modern audience , what was for ...
Strana xxix
... Stands not within the prospect of belief ” ( 1.3.74‒75 ) runs directly in the face of the disclosure , later in the play , that he has already been plotting the death of the king and his own ascension , as a close relative in the same ...
... Stands not within the prospect of belief ” ( 1.3.74‒75 ) runs directly in the face of the disclosure , later in the play , that he has already been plotting the death of the king and his own ascension , as a close relative in the same ...
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Strana xl
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