MacbethYale University Press, 01.01.2005 - 210 Seiten 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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... Banquo : I To be thus is nothing , but to be safely thus . Our fears in Banquo stick deep , And in his royalty of nature reigns that Which would be feared . ' Tis much he dares , And , to that dauntless temper of his mind , He hath a ...
... Banquo : I To be thus is nothing , but to be safely thus . Our fears in Banquo stick deep , And in his royalty of nature reigns that Which would be feared . ' Tis much he dares , And , to that dauntless temper of his mind , He hath a ...
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... Banquo stick5 deep, And in his royalty of nature6 reigns7 that Which would8 be feared. 'Tis much he dares, And,to9 that dauntless temper10 of his mind, He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valor To act in safety. There is none but he ...
... Banquo stick5 deep, And in his royalty of nature6 reigns7 that Which would8 be feared. 'Tis much he dares, And,to9 that dauntless temper10 of his mind, He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valor To act in safety. There is none but he ...
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... Banquo ” ( 1.2.34 ) , soars rhetorically to almost fairy - tale heights , complete with ref- erences to sparrows , eagles , hares , and lions , the animal figures of fable and legend . The badly wounded sergeant finally goes off , but ...
... Banquo ” ( 1.2.34 ) , soars rhetorically to almost fairy - tale heights , complete with ref- erences to sparrows , eagles , hares , and lions , the animal figures of fable and legend . The badly wounded sergeant finally goes off , but ...
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... Banquo ) —and their powers of prediction are , as they are meant to be , uncanny ( “ uncomfortably unnatural ” ) . It is left to Banquo to register onstage awareness of the witches ' presence , and to comment about their “ withered and ...
... Banquo ) —and their powers of prediction are , as they are meant to be , uncanny ( “ uncomfortably unnatural ” ) . It is left to Banquo to register onstage awareness of the witches ' presence , and to comment about their “ withered and ...
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... Banquo's string of queries, nor is there is any accident about their silence. Macbeth and Macbeth alone is the focus ... Banquo, watching his military colleague, informs us that Macbeth is sur- prised, as he should be, and upset, as he ...
... Banquo's string of queries, nor is there is any accident about their silence. Macbeth and Macbeth alone is the focus ... Banquo, watching his military colleague, informs us that Macbeth is sur- prised, as he should be, and upset, as he ...
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