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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... wouldn't that be nice ? Let lightning and thunder , or a falling tree , do my work . Equivoca- tion cannot be more plain , or less genuinely communicative , than " Time and the hour runs through the roughest day xxxi INTRODUCTION.
... wouldn't that be nice ? Let lightning and thunder , or a falling tree , do my work . Equivoca- tion cannot be more plain , or less genuinely communicative , than " Time and the hour runs through the roughest day xxxi INTRODUCTION.
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William Shakespeare. " Time and the hour runs through the roughest day ” ( 1.3.147 ) . That is , no matter what man may do ( “ Come what come may , ” 1.3.146 ) , the present will become the past . We can thus see why , as scene 4 opens ...
William Shakespeare. " Time and the hour runs through the roughest day ” ( 1.3.147 ) . That is , no matter what man may do ( “ Come what come may , ” 1.3.146 ) , the present will become the past . We can thus see why , as scene 4 opens ...
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... hours. • For private theaters, located in large halls of aristocratic houses, candlelight illumination was possible. The Actors • Actors worked in professional for-profit companies, sometimes organized and owned by other actors, and ...
... hours. • For private theaters, located in large halls of aristocratic houses, candlelight illumination was possible. The Actors • Actors worked in professional for-profit companies, sometimes organized and owned by other actors, and ...
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