Voltaire (Fran ois-Marie Arouet) (1694-1778) was one of the key
thinkers of the European Enlightenment. Of his many works, Candide
remains the most popular.
Peter Constantine was awarded the 1998 PEN Translation Award for
Six Early Stories by Thomas Mann and the 1999 National Translation
Award for The Undiscovered Chekhov- Forty-three New Stories. Widely
acclaimed for his recent translation of the complete works of Isaac
Babel, he also translated Gogol's Taras Bulba and Tolstoy's The
Cossacks for the Modern Library. His translations of fiction and
poetry have appeared in many publications, including The New
Yorker, Harper's, and Paris Review. He lives in New York City.
“When we observe such things as the recrudescence of fundamentalism
in the United States, the horrors of religious fanaticism in the
Middle East, the appalling danger which the stubbornness of
political intolerance presents to the whole world, we must surely
conclude that we can still profit by the example of lucidity, the
acumen, the intellectual honesty and the moral courage of
Voltaire.”
—A. J. Ayer
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