Le provinciali (ed. 2)
- Lingua:
- inglese
- Stato:
- Opera completa
- Autorialità:
- Scritta dall'autore
- Stato del testo:
- Testo pulito
- Estensione:
- ~120.000 parole · 575 passi
Cita quest'opera
- APAPascal. (n.d.). Le provinciali (ed. 2). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/blaise-pascal/lettres-provinciales
- MLAPascal. "Le provinciali (ed. 2)." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/it/works/blaise-pascal/lettres-provinciales.
- ChicagoPascal. Le provinciali (ed. 2). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/blaise-pascal/lettres-provinciales.
Di che cosa tratta
L'originale francese delle «Provinciali», del 1656-57: il testo da citare, e quello che creò la prosa francese moderna.
Contesto e storia
Nel catalogo c'è anche una traduzione inglese con introduzione storica; questa è l'opera quale Pascal la scrisse, e ciò conta perché in questo caso la lingua è l'argomento. Ciò che fece trionfare queste diciotto lettere anonime non fu solo quel che dicevano contro la casistica dei gesuiti, ma come lo dicevano: in francese corrente, in dialogo, con ironia e frasi brevi, in un tempo in cui una disputa teologica si scriveva in latino e per specialisti. Voltaire disse che era il primo libro di genio scritto in prosa francese. Furono bruciate per ordine del re e messe all'Indice nel 1660.
Contesto editoriale, non una fonte citabile: a differenza dei passi dell'opera, questi dati non si possono verificare sul corpus.
We were entirely mistaken. It was only yesterday that I was undeceived. Until that time I had laboured under the impression that the disputes in the Sorbonne were vastly important, and deeply affected the interests of religion. The frequent convocations of an assembly so illustrious as that of the Theological Faculty of Paris, attended by so many extraordinary and unprecedented circumstances, led one to form such high expectations that it was impossible to help coming to the conclusion that the subject was most extraordinary. You will be greatly surprised, however, when you learn from the following account the issue of this grand demonstration, which, having made myself perfectly master of the subject, I shall be able to tell you in very few words. Two questions, then, were brought under examination; the one a question of fact, the other a question of right. The question of fact consisted in ascertaining whether M. Arnauld was guilty of presumption, for having asserted in his second letter that he had carefully perused the book of Jansenius, and that he had not discovered the propositions condemned by the late pope; but that, nevertheless, as he condemned these propositions wherever they might occur, he condemned them in Jansenius, if they were really contained in that work. The question here was, if he could, without presumption, entertain a doubt that these propositions were in Jansenius, after the bishops had declared that they were.…