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Candide: Or Optimism

by Voltaire

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In this new translation of Voltaires Candide, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the French novels irreverent spirit and offers a vivid, contemporary version of the 250-year-old text. Raffel casts the novel in 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 Cunégonde, 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. Voltaires philosophical tale, in part an ironic attack on the optimistic thinking of such figures as G. W. 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 Voltaires life and work and the Age of Enlightenment.

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The translation of choice for twenty-first-century readers of Voltaire's satiric masterpiece.

Synopsis:

In this new translation of Voltaires best-known work, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the irreverent spirit of Candide and renders the novel in clear, vivacious English. Stylistically superior to all predecessors, Raffels version now stands as the translation of choice for twenty-first-century readers.

 

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Burton Raffel is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Arts and Humanities and emeritus professor of English, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His other translations from the French include Stendhals The Red and the Black and Rabelaiss Gargantua and Pantagruel, winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize, 1992.

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ISBN:

9780300106558

Translator:

Raffel, Burton

Publisher:

Yale University Press

Translator:

Raffel, Burton

Author:

Voltaire

Author:

Raffel, Burton

Subject:

General

Subject:

Classics

Subject:

General Literary Criticism & Collections

Subject:

Literature-A to Z

Edition Description:

Trade Cloth

Publication Date:

20050331

Binding:

HARDCOVER

Language:

English

Pages:

176

Dimensions:

8.25 x 5.5 in 0.5 lb

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Product details 176 pages Yale University Press - 2005-03-00 English 9780300106558 Reviews:

"Synopsis" by Firebrand,

The translation of choice for twenty-first-century readers of Voltaire's satiric masterpiece.

"Synopsis" by Firebrand,

In this new translation of Voltaires best-known work, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the irreverent spirit of Candide and renders the novel in clear, vivacious English. Stylistically superior to all predecessors, Raffels version now stands as the translation of choice for twenty-first-century readers.