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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... audience was fully aware that the dra- matic force of these three presences originated from a fiercely dangerous , socially subversive evil that everyone knew and feared . They understood perfectly the power of the demonic force en ...
... audience was fully aware that the dra- matic force of these three presences originated from a fiercely dangerous , socially subversive evil that everyone knew and feared . They understood perfectly the power of the demonic force en ...
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... audience , what was for the men and women of Shakespeare's time the tremulously awful juxtaposition of ( 1 ) witches and ( 2 ) the natural signs and symbols of their ghastly power ? Shakespeare's audience not only had a greater sense ...
... audience , what was for the men and women of Shakespeare's time the tremulously awful juxtaposition of ( 1 ) witches and ( 2 ) the natural signs and symbols of their ghastly power ? Shakespeare's audience not only had a greater sense ...
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... audience could not take the unnatural lightly , nor could they afford to treat witchery with in- difference . Witches dancing their magic circles , with or without music , were not matters of entertainment , or of fun . When the three ...
... audience could not take the unnatural lightly , nor could they afford to treat witchery with in- difference . Witches dancing their magic circles , with or without music , were not matters of entertainment , or of fun . When the three ...
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... audience knew they were in fact considerably greater . Significantly , Banquo is not at all sure these creatures can or should be trusted . He understands , in other words , that all things come to us with price tags attached — and ...
... audience knew they were in fact considerably greater . Significantly , Banquo is not at all sure these creatures can or should be trusted . He understands , in other words , that all things come to us with price tags attached — and ...
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... audience ? —Duncan's murder . The equivocator's language remains equally plain , even when Macbeth speaks to himself . Either Banquo's admonition or Macbeth's own awareness of the supernatural leads Macbeth to ponder , “ This ...
... audience ? —Duncan's murder . The equivocator's language remains equally plain , even when Macbeth speaks to himself . Either Banquo's admonition or Macbeth's own awareness of the supernatural leads Macbeth to ponder , “ This ...
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