Babe, or Progress: Voltaire's Candide, or Optimism translated into the present day - Hardcover

Keith, Rumsey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1909716057 ISBN 13: 9781909716056

Verlag: Book Guild Publishing Ltd, 2014

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Reseña del editor

In 1759 the French philosopher and man of letters, Voltaire, entertained and scandalised polite society by publishing Candide, a book satirising religion, governments, armies, philosophies and philosophers. Preserving the sardonic tone and matter-of-fact style of the original, Keith Rumsey has written a pungent parody of our times accurately ridiculing the fashionable Sunday supplement crowd, religious fanaticism, European monetary policy and many other aspects of today's world just as his model did in the 18th century. Voltaire's characters reappear in modern disguise: Candide is now 'Babe', the Baron of Thunder-ten-Tronkh is 'Sir Digby Thunder-Smith', his daughter (Cunégonde) becomes Madonna-Jo, the tutor Pangloss who believes that "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds" is transformed into Fabio Lamode even the lady with one buttock takes a prominent role. In Babe the reader will find a hilarious update of a classic picaresque novel.

Biografía del autor

Keith Rumsey was born in Ipswich in 1948. He went on to study for a Double Honours Degree in French & German at the University of Leeds and followed this with a Post-Graduate Certificate of Education at the University of Bristol. He taught at Philip Morant School in Colchester where he held the post of Head of Modern Languages between 1974 and 1989. He currently works as a volunteer at the St Helena Hospice Day Centre in Colchester.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Book Guild Publishing Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1909716057
• ISBN 13: 9781909716056
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144