Fanaticism, or Mahomet the Prophet
A 18th Century, Literature, Religion book. What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths....
Voltaire's play Fanaticism, or Mahomet the Prophet was controversial in its own day, and has stirred up controversy in recent decades as attempts to mount stage productions have been met with protests. Originally intended as an oblique criticism of the Catholic Church and religious fanaticism in general (as Voltaire understood it), the play stands today as an entertaining melodrama marked by gleeful irreverance and historical imagination. This new prose translation into English by Hanna Burton brings the text to modern English-speaking audiences. The translator's...
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- Pages: 106 pages
- ISBN: 9781936117819 / 1936117819
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What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all. Voltaire, Le Fanatisme Ou Mahomet Le Prophte: Tragdie //
je me suis bien amuse lisant cette pice, quoiqu'elle n'ait aucune relation avec un vnement historique , ni avec la personnalit relle du prophte , je suis leve en une socit musulmane ( quoi que je me considre convertie) , je trouve que Voltaire a donn une impression un peu rude de Mahomet, , un peu traitre ( trahissant ce qu'il est venu... If you read the book in French you can appreciate the poetry, lost in translation. It is fiction - not history - as Voltaire says in the intro. It is meant to show the insanity of extremism, no matter what the religion (or superstition as Voltaire would call it), and in this sense, it is ageless. I read the English translation. The play is excellent critique of religious and political fanaticism. It takes shots at both Christianity and Islam, and few at the King of France.
