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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... never are for Shakespeare , surviving manuscripts ) are frequently careless as well as self - contradictory , I have been relatively free with the wording of stage directions- and in some cases have added small directions , to indicate ...
... never are for Shakespeare , surviving manuscripts ) are frequently careless as well as self - contradictory , I have been relatively free with the wording of stage directions- and in some cases have added small directions , to indicate ...
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... never clearly separable and self - contained.4 “ The early medieval Christian Church [ was ] alerted to the bene- fits of the emotional charge certain sorts of magic offered and tried hard to nourish and encourage this form of energy ...
... never clearly separable and self - contained.4 “ The early medieval Christian Church [ was ] alerted to the bene- fits of the emotional charge certain sorts of magic offered and tried hard to nourish and encourage this form of energy ...
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... Never , ” responds Lady Macbeth . “ We will speak fur- ther , ” equivocates Macbeth . No , she assures him . Just “ leave all the rest to me ” ( 1.5.69–71 ) . Set against scene 5 , in which the unwomanly ( and therefore “ unnatural ...
... Never , ” responds Lady Macbeth . “ We will speak fur- ther , ” equivocates Macbeth . No , she assures him . Just “ leave all the rest to me ” ( 1.5.69–71 ) . Set against scene 5 , in which the unwomanly ( and therefore “ unnatural ...
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... never printed , during Shakespeare's lifetime . Not only did drama not have the cultural esteem it has in our time , but neither did literature in general . Shakespeare wrote a good deal of nondramatic poetry yet so far as we know did ...
... never printed , during Shakespeare's lifetime . Not only did drama not have the cultural esteem it has in our time , but neither did literature in general . Shakespeare wrote a good deal of nondramatic poetry yet so far as we know did ...
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