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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... wife ? No : that is the answer we hear at once from Macbeth himself . Macbeth has just heard , from the king's mouth , that Malcolm is now the proclaimed heir to the throne . The news should not be dreadfully surprising to someone as ...
... wife ? No : that is the answer we hear at once from Macbeth himself . Macbeth has just heard , from the king's mouth , that Malcolm is now the proclaimed heir to the throne . The news should not be dreadfully surprising to someone as ...
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... wife . Who but another equivocator could turn that which is uniquely life - sustaining into that which , in the name of ambition , is murderous ? She is manifestly self - deceived , as both husband and wife frequently are , when she ...
... wife . Who but another equivocator could turn that which is uniquely life - sustaining into that which , in the name of ambition , is murderous ? She is manifestly self - deceived , as both husband and wife frequently are , when she ...
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... wife , demanding to know , “ Why have you left the chamber ? ” He naturally equivocates : “ Hath he asked for me ? ” ( 1.7.30–31 ) . This is rather a dull - witted avoidance gesture , hardly well calculated to put off a charging tigress ...
... wife , demanding to know , “ Why have you left the chamber ? ” He naturally equivocates : “ Hath he asked for me ? ” ( 1.7.30–31 ) . This is rather a dull - witted avoidance gesture , hardly well calculated to put off a charging tigress ...
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... too long , suddenly to turn and throw over the conspiracy . It has not been a close call , this husband - and - wife discussion . Can we believe that he really wanted to “ prevail , ” by getting out of xxxvi INTRODUCTION.
... too long , suddenly to turn and throw over the conspiracy . It has not been a close call , this husband - and - wife discussion . Can we believe that he really wanted to “ prevail , ” by getting out of xxxvi INTRODUCTION.
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... wife of the god of war , Mars ) 78 lapped in proof = wrapped / clothed in impenetrable , well - tested armor ( till THAT belLONa's BRIDEgroom LAPPed in PROOF ) 79 self comparisons = equivalents to his own power 80 rebellious arm ...
... wife of the god of war , Mars ) 78 lapped in proof = wrapped / clothed in impenetrable , well - tested armor ( till THAT belLONa's BRIDEgroom LAPPed in PROOF ) 79 self comparisons = equivalents to his own power 80 rebellious arm ...
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