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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... speaking to whom . I have made no emendations ; I have necessar- ily been obliged to make choices . Textual decisions have been an- notated when the differences between or among the original printed texts seem either marked or of ...
... speaking to whom . I have made no emendations ; I have necessar- ily been obliged to make choices . Textual decisions have been an- notated when the differences between or among the original printed texts seem either marked or of ...
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... speak things strange ” ( 1.2.46–47 ) . Ross's account of battling the King of Norway maintains both Macbeth's glori- ous military standing and the scene's lofty rhetoric at high levels . Let us step back , for a moment , to the ...
... speak things strange ” ( 1.2.46–47 ) . Ross's account of battling the King of Norway maintains both Macbeth's glori- ous military standing and the scene's lofty rhetoric at high levels . Let us step back , for a moment , to the ...
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... Speak, if you can.What are you?” (1.3.49). Macbeth actively and directly desires their speech; this is yet another clear warning of evils to come.“What manner of per- son are you? Who are you?” he has asked. And evil then advances to ...
... Speak, if you can.What are you?” (1.3.49). Macbeth actively and directly desires their speech; this is yet another clear warning of evils to come.“What manner of per- son are you? Who are you?” he has asked. And evil then advances to ...
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... Speak , I charge you ” ( 1.3.79 ) . We learn in due course that he too is lying , as he so regularly does . His claim that “ To be king / Stands not within the prospect of belief ” ( 1.3.74‒75 ) runs directly in the face of the ...
... Speak , I charge you ” ( 1.3.79 ) . We learn in due course that he too is lying , as he so regularly does . His claim that “ To be king / Stands not within the prospect of belief ” ( 1.3.74‒75 ) runs directly in the face of the ...
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... 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 ” ) attitudes of Lady Macbeth would have seemed ...
... 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 ” ) attitudes of Lady Macbeth would have seemed ...
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