Voltaire:Candide ou l'Optimisme

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Description

This edition has been designed to help the English-speaking student approach the original French through the use of a thorough and informative introduction, ample and informative notes and study questions, all of which are contained in one convenient volume.

Features/Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
Notes stylistiques
Chronologie
Les voyages de Candide: Carte
Candide ou l'Optimisme
Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne, avec sa Préface

Market

The Focus Student Editions are appropriate as introductory texts for French language courses in literature and culture.

Focus Student Edition Series:

Guy de Maupassant: Pierre et Jean           Camara Laye: L'Enfant noir
Corneille: Le Cid       Moliere: L'Ecole des femmes  

About the Authors

Eileen M. Angelini received her B.A. in French from Middlebury College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in French Studies from Brown University. She is Professor of French and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages at Canisius College. Dr. Angelini has won research grants from the U.S., French, and Canadian governments. She is a frequent presenter at national and regional conferences and the author of publications on literary analysis, and on pedagogy, focusing on the professions and cross-cultural communication. Dr. Angelini is a Question Leader for the AP French Language Examination and a College Board Consultant. Dr. Angelini was awarded the 2008 AATF Dorothy Ludwig National Award for Outstanding Teacher of the Year.

Myrna Bell Rochester (A.B. Romance Languages, University of Chicago; M.A., Ph.D. French, U.C.L.A.) also studied at the Université de Genève. Her book on Surrealist poet and novelist René Crevel was published in Stanford French and Italian Studies (René Crevel: Le Pays des miroirs absolus). Dr. Rochester taught at U.C.L.A., Menlo College, and Stanford. She is a free-lance book editor and the author of college texts: Rendez-vous, Entrée en scène, Bonjour, ça va? and Vis-à-vis, as well as a trade text, Easy French Step-by-Step).

Dr. Rochester is the co-editor of the French literary classics series for Focus Publishing: Camara Laye's L'Enfant noir, Molière's L'École des femmes, Maupassant's Pierre et Jean, Voltaire's Candide, and Corneille's Le Cid. Her criticism includes studies of Simone de Beauvoir, Béatrix Beck, Dominique Desanti, and other women writers of the World War II era. She contributed English translations to Surrealist Women: An International Anthology (ed. Penelope Rosemont) and to the award-winning Black, Brown and Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora (eds. Franklin Rosemont and Robin D. G. Kelley). Dr. Rochester contributes to the UK-based online Literary Encyclopedia.

Reviews

From NECTFL Review #62 (Spring/Summer)

These editions are meant to provide students with a smooth transition from the study of language to the study of literature. As a matter of fact, they oftentimes provide a bridge that leads imperceptibly from one to the other (this is particularly true in the case of L’enfant noir, the story of a boy’s youth told with meticulous contextualization, considerable repetition, and constant rephrasing — characteristic techniques of the oral storytelling tradition).... [T]he Focus Student Edition of L’enfant noir is currently the best available. It has great merit. AP and non-AP teachers of Francophone literature should not hesitate to adopt it.
                                                                 ~ J. Vincent H. Morrissette, Fairfield University