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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... thought to manifest all kinds of occult influences and sympathies. The cosmos was an organic unity in which every part bore a sym- pathetic relationship to the rest. Even colours, letters and num- bers were endowed with magical ...
... thought to manifest all kinds of occult influences and sympathies. The cosmos was an organic unity in which every part bore a sym- pathetic relationship to the rest. Even colours, letters and num- bers were endowed with magical ...
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... thought , in only imagining it . Self - betrayal can virtu- ally be seen crossing over into the betrayal , and the murder , of his king . And Macbeth's next words provide all the confirmation one might want : “ My thought , whose murder ...
... thought , in only imagining it . Self - betrayal can virtu- ally be seen crossing over into the betrayal , and the murder , of his king . And Macbeth's next words provide all the confirmation one might want : “ My thought , whose murder ...
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... thoughts of murder will no longer linger , inactive , in his mind . Duncan's time has come— and Malcolm's will follow , one way or another . To this point , we know absolutely nothing of Lady Macbeth . The process of informing us begins ...
... thoughts of murder will no longer linger , inactive , in his mind . Duncan's time has come— and Malcolm's will follow , one way or another . To this point , we know absolutely nothing of Lady Macbeth . The process of informing us begins ...
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