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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... meaning, and usages that have been altered, neither the modern reader nor the modern lis- tener is likely to be equipped for anything like the full compre- hension that Shakespeare intended and all readers or listeners de- serve. I ...
... meaning, and usages that have been altered, neither the modern reader nor the modern lis- tener is likely to be equipped for anything like the full compre- hension that Shakespeare intended and all readers or listeners de- serve. I ...
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... meanings without glosses . Those not familiar with the modern meaning of particular words will easily find clear , simple definitions in any modern dictionary . But most read- ers are not likely to understand Shakespeare's intended meaning ...
... meanings without glosses . Those not familiar with the modern meaning of particular words will easily find clear , simple definitions in any modern dictionary . But most read- ers are not likely to understand Shakespeare's intended meaning ...
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... meaning “ physique , build , body . ” The closest word to “ kofer ” in modern German , indeed , is “ Scrankkoffer , ” which is too large a leap for ready comprehen- sion . Speakers of different Romance languages ( such as French ...
... meaning “ physique , build , body . ” The closest word to “ kofer ” in modern German , indeed , is “ Scrankkoffer , ” which is too large a leap for ready comprehen- sion . Speakers of different Romance languages ( such as French ...
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... meanings are usually separated by commas; if there are distinctly different ranges of meaning, the annotations are separated by arabic numerals inside parentheses—(1),(2), and so on; in more complexly worded annotations, alternative ...
... meanings are usually separated by commas; if there are distinctly different ranges of meaning, the annotations are separated by arabic numerals inside parentheses—(1),(2), and so on; in more complexly worded annotations, alternative ...
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... meanings are annotated only for meanings no longer current in Modern English. * The most important typographical device here employed is the sign placed after the first (and only) annotation of words and phrases occurring more than once ...
... meanings are annotated only for meanings no longer current in Modern English. * The most important typographical device here employed is the sign placed after the first (and only) annotation of words and phrases occurring more than once ...
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