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الشاشات الجائعة
- أي خطر مفزع قد يكمن لنا وراء الشاشات المضيئة التي نُحدِّق فيها طوال الوقت؟
وأي أشياء مرعبة قد تأتي لنا عبرها؟
- في قصة «الشاشات الجائعة» للكاتب الأمريكي «ريتشارد ماثيسون» يتجلى لنا الخطر من أكثر الأشياء اعتياديةً وحضورًا في حياتنا اليومية.
القصة التي كُتبت في بداية الخمسينيات لتُعبِّر عن القلق المتنامي وقتها من الانتشار الوبائي لأجهزة التلفزيون ما زالت تصلح لإعادة تقديمها وإسقاطها اليوم على الانفجار المفاجئ في تكنولوجيا الاتصالات والتأثير المحتمل للتطورات في مجال الاتصال الجماهيري.
- تُظهِر قصة «الشاشات الجائعة» قدرة «ماثيسون» على نسج حكاية محكمة من صفحات قليلة وبأسطر قصيرة من الحوارات والمؤثرات الصوتية.
- هذه واحدة من قصص «ماثيسون» التي ينجح فيها بالتلميح بالرعب ومزج عناصره بالخيال العلمي.
وأي أشياء مرعبة قد تأتي لنا عبرها؟
- في قصة «الشاشات الجائعة» للكاتب الأمريكي «ريتشارد ماثيسون» يتجلى لنا الخطر من أكثر الأشياء اعتياديةً وحضورًا في حياتنا اليومية.
القصة التي كُتبت في بداية الخمسينيات لتُعبِّر عن القلق المتنامي وقتها من الانتشار الوبائي لأجهزة التلفزيون ما زالت تصلح لإعادة تقديمها وإسقاطها اليوم على الانفجار المفاجئ في تكنولوجيا الاتصالات والتأثير المحتمل للتطورات في مجال الاتصال الجماهيري.
- تُظهِر قصة «الشاشات الجائعة» قدرة «ماثيسون» على نسج حكاية محكمة من صفحات قليلة وبأسطر قصيرة من الحوارات والمؤثرات الصوتية.
- هذه واحدة من قصص «ماثيسون» التي ينجح فيها بالتلميح بالرعب ومزج عناصره بالخيال العلمي.
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Published June 1, 2023
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About the author
Richard Matheson
760 books4,774 followersBorn in Allendale, New Jersey to Norwegian immigrant parents, Matheson was raised in Brooklyn and graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in 1943. He then entered the military and spent World War II as an infantry soldier. In 1949 he earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and moved to California in 1951. He married in 1952 and has four children, three of whom (Chris, Richard Christian, and Ali Matheson) are writers of fiction and screenplays.
His first short story, "Born of Man and Woman," appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1950. The tale of a monstrous child chained in its parents' cellar, it was told in the first person as the creature's diary (in poignantly non-idiomatic English) and immediately made Matheson famous. Between 1950 and 1971, Matheson produced dozens of stories, frequently blending elements of the science fiction, horror and fantasy genres.
Several of his stories, like "Third from the Sun" (1950), "Deadline" (1959) and "Button, Button" (1970) are simple sketches with twist endings; others, like "Trespass" (1953), "Being" (1954) and "Mute" (1962) explore their characters' dilemmas over twenty or thirty pages. Some tales, such as "The Funeral" (1955) and "The Doll that Does Everything" (1954) incorporate zany satirical humour at the expense of genre clichés, and are written in an hysterically overblown prose very different from Matheson's usual pared-down style. Others, like "The Test" (1954) and "Steel" (1956), portray the moral and physical struggles of ordinary people, rather than the then nearly ubiquitous scientists and superheroes, in situations which are at once futuristic and everyday. Still others, such as "Mad House" (1953), "The Curious Child" (1954) and perhaps most famously, "Duel" (1971) are tales of paranoia, in which the everyday environment of the present day becomes inexplicably alien or threatening.
He wrote a number of episodes for the American TV series The Twilight Zone, including "Steel," mentioned above and the famous "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"; adapted the works of Edgar Allan Poe for Roger Corman and Dennis Wheatley's The Devil Rides Out for Hammer Films; and scripted Steven Spielberg's first feature, the TV movie Duel, from his own short story. He also contributed a number of scripts to the Warner Brothers western series "The Lawman" between 1958 and 1962. In 1973, Matheson earned an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for his teleplay for The Night Stalker, one of two TV movies written by Matheson that preceded the series Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Matheson also wrote the screenplay for Fanatic (US title: Die! Die! My Darling!) starring Talullah Bankhead and Stefanie Powers.
Novels include The Shrinking Man (filmed as The Incredible Shrinking Man, again from Matheson's own screenplay), and a science fiction vampire novel, I Am Legend, which has been filmed three times under the titles The Omega Man and The Last Man on Earth and once under the original title. Other Matheson novels turned into notable films include What Dreams May Come, Stir of Echoes, Bid Time Return (as Somewhere in Time), and Hell House (as The Legend of Hell House) and the aforementioned Duel, the last three adapted and scripted by Matheson himself. Three of his short stories were filmed together as Trilogy of Terror, including "Prey" with its famous Zuni warrior doll.
In 1960, Matheson published The Beardless Warriors, a nonfantastic, autobiographical novel about teenage American soldiers in World War II.
He died at his home on June 23, 2013, at the age of 87
http://us.macmillan.com/author/richar...
His first short story, "Born of Man and Woman," appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1950. The tale of a monstrous child chained in its parents' cellar, it was told in the first person as the creature's diary (in poignantly non-idiomatic English) and immediately made Matheson famous. Between 1950 and 1971, Matheson produced dozens of stories, frequently blending elements of the science fiction, horror and fantasy genres.
Several of his stories, like "Third from the Sun" (1950), "Deadline" (1959) and "Button, Button" (1970) are simple sketches with twist endings; others, like "Trespass" (1953), "Being" (1954) and "Mute" (1962) explore their characters' dilemmas over twenty or thirty pages. Some tales, such as "The Funeral" (1955) and "The Doll that Does Everything" (1954) incorporate zany satirical humour at the expense of genre clichés, and are written in an hysterically overblown prose very different from Matheson's usual pared-down style. Others, like "The Test" (1954) and "Steel" (1956), portray the moral and physical struggles of ordinary people, rather than the then nearly ubiquitous scientists and superheroes, in situations which are at once futuristic and everyday. Still others, such as "Mad House" (1953), "The Curious Child" (1954) and perhaps most famously, "Duel" (1971) are tales of paranoia, in which the everyday environment of the present day becomes inexplicably alien or threatening.
He wrote a number of episodes for the American TV series The Twilight Zone, including "Steel," mentioned above and the famous "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"; adapted the works of Edgar Allan Poe for Roger Corman and Dennis Wheatley's The Devil Rides Out for Hammer Films; and scripted Steven Spielberg's first feature, the TV movie Duel, from his own short story. He also contributed a number of scripts to the Warner Brothers western series "The Lawman" between 1958 and 1962. In 1973, Matheson earned an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for his teleplay for The Night Stalker, one of two TV movies written by Matheson that preceded the series Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Matheson also wrote the screenplay for Fanatic (US title: Die! Die! My Darling!) starring Talullah Bankhead and Stefanie Powers.
Novels include The Shrinking Man (filmed as The Incredible Shrinking Man, again from Matheson's own screenplay), and a science fiction vampire novel, I Am Legend, which has been filmed three times under the titles The Omega Man and The Last Man on Earth and once under the original title. Other Matheson novels turned into notable films include What Dreams May Come, Stir of Echoes, Bid Time Return (as Somewhere in Time), and Hell House (as The Legend of Hell House) and the aforementioned Duel, the last three adapted and scripted by Matheson himself. Three of his short stories were filmed together as Trilogy of Terror, including "Prey" with its famous Zuni warrior doll.
In 1960, Matheson published The Beardless Warriors, a nonfantastic, autobiographical novel about teenage American soldiers in World War II.
He died at his home on June 23, 2013, at the age of 87
http://us.macmillan.com/author/richar...
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October 2, 2023
هو اما اجيب عيلة في قصة قصيرة التلفزيون كان جعان فقام واكل كل العيلة وقال شبعت وابنهم روح لقاهم مقتولين تبقي كدا فلسفية يعني وتبين خطر التلفزيون
ما هي القصص الفلسفية طلعت سهلة اهي
امال انت فاكر ايه
ما هي القصص الفلسفية طلعت سهلة اهي
امال انت فاكر ايه
February 22, 2022
I'm not sure why not everyone can see this, but "Through Channels" demonstrates how short horror stories of the terrifying/disturbing variety should be written. It's effective, inventive and scary. Very scary. Matheson was a genius
April 9, 2025
2.5
خفيفة لطيفة وستايلها اكثر شيء شدني… تمنيت ان يكون هناك المزيد.
خفيفة لطيفة وستايلها اكثر شيء شدني… تمنيت ان يكون هناك المزيد.
February 8, 2024
Monsters in the tv eating people. Only complaint is it’s too short. 9/10
September 22, 2025
جيدة رغم أنها قصيرة ، التلفاز يلتهم البشر قصة ذات مغزى لربما لو اطلع المؤلف على شاشات اليوم لشاهد انواع مختلفة و
ليس فقط شاشات التلفاز الشيء الآخر المترجمة تقوم بترجمة الاعمال التي لم تحظ بالاهتمام ف الوطن العربي الى العربية
شيء مميز حقا و جهد تشكر عليه المترجمة
ليس فقط شاشات التلفاز الشيء الآخر المترجمة تقوم بترجمة الاعمال التي لم تحظ بالاهتمام ف الوطن العربي الى العربية
شيء مميز حقا و جهد تشكر عليه المترجمة
August 18, 2023
القصة فكرتها حلوة، اتعملت بخفة نوعًا ما، أكتر حاجة عجبتني فيها هي ترجمتها بصراحة، ترجمة عربية جميلة💙
June 29, 2025
لا تعليق
August 3, 2025
Genialer Minimalismus mit (besonders für die Zeit) einer fiesen (medienkritischen) Pointe.
September 12, 2025
Feels more like a vignette than a complete story, but it’s an effectively creepy vignette.
November 12, 2025
Very creepy. I wanted more, which I usually consider a positive, but this was probably just too short.
February 16, 2024
كما لو أنه واجب منزلي لطفل طلبت منه المعلمة القيام بعمل إبداعي عن خطر التلفاز.
October 17, 2023
الترجمة جميلة جدا و سلسة و القصة قصيرة و فلسفية أكثر من انها رعب.
April 13, 2025
قصة رائعة لكي لا أضع الهاتف بجانب سريري مجددا
October 11, 2025
فكره والترجمه حلوين
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