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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... thou be none”(1.3.68).Lineage was a profoundly serious matter in Shakespeare's time. Fathers understood that they lived on, after death, primarily in their children, most particularly their sons. A profoundly Christian culture,accepting ...
... thou be none”(1.3.68).Lineage was a profoundly serious matter in Shakespeare's time. Fathers understood that they lived on, after death, primarily in their children, most particularly their sons. A profoundly Christian culture,accepting ...
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... thou didst leave it. Sergeant Doubtful it stood, As two spent13 swimmers,that do cling together And choke their art.14The merciless Macdonwald – 5 Worthy to be a rebel,for to that15 The multiplying villainies. 1 FORres 2 call to arms ...
... thou didst leave it. Sergeant Doubtful it stood, As two spent13 swimmers,that do cling together And choke their art.14The merciless Macdonwald – 5 Worthy to be a rebel,for to that15 The multiplying villainies. 1 FORres 2 call to arms ...
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... thou,worthy Thane? Ross From Fife,70 great king, Where the Norweyan banners flout71. 54 overloaded 55 roars (i.e.,that which makes a cannon roar:gunpowder) 56 Macbeth and Banquo 57 SO they DOUbly reDOUBled STROKES upON the FOE 58 whether ...
... thou,worthy Thane? Ross From Fife,70 great king, Where the Norweyan banners flout71. 54 overloaded 55 roars (i.e.,that which makes a cannon roar:gunpowder) 56 Macbeth and Banquo 57 SO they DOUbly reDOUBled STROKES upON the FOE 58 whether ...
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... thou been,sister? Witch 2 Killing swine.1 Witch 3 Sister,where thou?2 Witch 1 A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap, And munched,and munched,and munched.3 “Give me,”quoth4 I. “Aroint5 thee,witch!”the rump-fed ronyon6 cries. Her ...
... thou been,sister? Witch 2 Killing swine.1 Witch 3 Sister,where thou?2 Witch 1 A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap, And munched,and munched,and munched.3 “Give me,”quoth4 I. “Aroint5 thee,witch!”the rump-fed ronyon6 cries. Her ...
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... thou art 14 another wind 15 control 16 the other winds 17 true,reliable 18 they blow = to which they blow 19 the four quarters of the compass:North,South,East,and West 20 (1) list,set out,(2) are familiar with,have learned by heart 21 ...
... thou art 14 another wind 15 control 16 the other winds 17 true,reliable 18 they blow = to which they blow 19 the four quarters of the compass:North,South,East,and West 20 (1) list,set out,(2) are familiar with,have learned by heart 21 ...
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