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 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. Voltaire’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 Voltaire’s life and work and the Age of Enlightenment.
伏爾泰
一六九四 ~ 一七七八
法國思想傢、文學傢、哲學傢,十八世紀法國資産階級啓濛運動的泰鬥和靈魂。主要作品有哲理小說《老實人》《天真漢》《查第格》,曆史著作《查理十二史》《風俗論》,哲學著作《哲學詞典》《哲學書簡》等。
傅雷
一九〇八 ~ 一九六六
著名文學翻譯傢、文藝評論傢。從二十世紀三十年代起緻力於法國文學的翻譯介紹工作,畢生翻譯作品三十餘部,譯文以傳神為特色,更兼行文流暢,用字豐富,工於色彩變化。
文/刘安娜 一 我都不知道我是怎么翻开伏尔泰的这本《老实人》的,大约是这封面的魅力,还有书名老实人这三个字莫名的吸引了我。 书中对老实人自有一番解说,本是candidate(常见释义,候选人)的音译,“戆第特”,考虑到这则寓言故事里的人设,干脆译为老实人更贴切些。在之后...
評分Comparative Literature 4CW Close reading of Chapter 19 of Voltaire’s Candide Voltaire’s “Candide” is a sarcastic account revealing blind optimism in a life of misfortune. It is showed in the close reading texts, when Candide and his valet Cacambo rea...
評分1.这部伏尔泰三日内一蹴而就、倚马而待的文学经典,用讽刺的手法嘲笑了莱布尼兹提出的一种世俗观念——“Optimism”。在书中,这种“有果必有因”、“世界十全十美”的思想,是由Candide崇敬的老师Pangloss(满口胡话之意)所坚持的。但是从他舟车劳顿的一生,却从反面推翻了这...
評分首先声明:这个版本本身是不推荐的,只是在网上随便下了个pdf,用着方便。中英文对照,英文应该是企鹅本,而翻译很随性。 老实人Candide(同义反复梗还挺冷的)出生在威斯特伐利亚美好的乡间城堡,大概是个城堡主人的妹妹的私生子,因此没什么地位。他与美丽表妹产生了一点点爱...
評分9.2 讽刺类小说,我曾拜读过《好兵帅克历险记》和余华的《第七天》,我认为都没有这本《老实人》高明。伏尔泰在本书中讽刺了宗教 政治 战争 学者,也在书中描写了人性的贪婪 欲望 邪恶 自私。写这本书时,伏尔泰66岁,他结合了对世界对人生的认知。读这本书就如同在经历一个人...
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