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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... heart knock at my ribs , / Against the use of nature ? ” ( 1.3.134— 137 ) . His temptation ( “ suggestion ” ) , as we have already seen , does not stem from the witches ' words . The “ horrid image ” is one he has contemplated before ...
... heart knock at my ribs , / Against the use of nature ? ” ( 1.3.134— 137 ) . His temptation ( “ suggestion ” ) , as we have already seen , does not stem from the witches ' words . The “ horrid image ” is one he has contemplated before ...
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... heart . She worries that Macbeth is insuffi- ciently determined and that he is “ too full o ' the milk of human kindness ” ( 1.5.15 ) . Men did not think a great deal of “ milk ” ; women did . But just as her husband turns morality on ...
... heart . She worries that Macbeth is insuffi- ciently determined and that he is “ too full o ' the milk of human kindness ” ( 1.5.15 ) . Men did not think a great deal of “ milk ” ; women did . But just as her husband turns morality on ...
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... heart doth know ” ( 1.7.80–83 ) . They go back to the banquet together , manifestly blithe and resolved . Macbeth does , later in the play , like to think of himself as a victim , when things start to go wrong . But at the close of act ...
... heart doth know ” ( 1.7.80–83 ) . They go back to the banquet together , manifestly blithe and resolved . Macbeth does , later in the play , like to think of himself as a victim , when things start to go wrong . But at the close of act ...
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... heart 21 chart 22 penthouse lid = eyelid(s) (so called because the eyelids slope down from the front of the house, like – in French – Though his bark cannot be lost,28 Yet it shall be. adjoining a house) 23 accursed une appentis, or lean ...
... heart 21 chart 22 penthouse lid = eyelid(s) (so called because the eyelids slope down from the front of the house, like – in French – Though his bark cannot be lost,28 Yet it shall be. adjoining a house) 23 accursed une appentis, or lean ...
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