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Candide or Optimism Book

In this new translation of Voltaireâ??s 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, Raffelâ??s version now stands as the translation of choice for twenty-first-century readers. Read More

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    In this new translation of Voltaireâ??s Candide, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the French novelâ??s 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. Voltaireâ??s 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 Voltaireâ??s life and work and the Age of Enlightenment.

  • 0300106556
  • 9780300106558
  • Voltaire
  • 8 March 2005
  • Yale University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 172
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