الدكتور جوناثان

by Winston Churchill, حسين تقي سنبلي (ترجمة), علي محمد سليمان (مراجعة)

This play was written during the war. But owing to the fact that several managers politely declined to produce it, it has not appeared on any stage. Now, perhaps, its theme is more timely, more likely to receive the attention it deserves, when the smoke of battle has somewhat cleared. Even when the struggle with Germany and her allies was in progress it was quite apparent to the discerning that the true issue of the conflict was one quite familiar to American thought, of self-determination. On returning from abroad toward the end of 1917 I ventured into print with the statement that the great war had every aspect of a race with revolution. Subliminal desires, subliminal fears, when they break down the censor of law, are apt to inspire fanatical creeds, to wind about their victims the flaming flag of a false martyrdom. Today it is on the knees of the gods whether the insuppressible impulses for human freedom that come roaring up from the subliminal chaos, fanned by hunger and hate, are to thrash themselves out in anarchy and insanity, or to take an ordered, intelligent and conscious course. Of the Twentieth Century, industrial democracy is the watchword, even as political democracy was the watchword of the two centuries that preceded it. Economic power is at last realized to be political power. No man owns himself, no woman owns herself if the individual is not economically free. Perhaps the most encouraging omen of the day is the fact that many of our modern employers, and even our modern financiers and bankers seem to be recognizing this truth, to be growing aware of the danger to civilization of its continued suppression. Educators and sociologists may supply the theories; but by experiment, by trial and error, -yes, and by prayer, -the solution must be found in the practical domain of industr

190 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1919

About the author

This is not the British Prime Minister, Sir Winston Spencer Churchill. This is the American novelist, Winston Churchill.

Churchill was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Edward Spalding and Emma Bell (Blaine) Churchill. He attended Smith Academy in Missouri and the United States Naval Academy, where he graduated in 1894 and became an editor of the Army and Navy Journal. He resigned from the navy to pursue a writing career. While he would be most successful as a novelist, he was also a published poet and essayist.

His first novel was The Celebrity (1898). (Mr. Keegan's Elopement was published in 1896 within a magazine. In 1903 it was republished as an illustrated hardback book.) Churchill's next novel—Richard Carvel (1899)—was a phenomenon, selling as many as two million copies in a nation of only 76 million, and made Churchill rich. His next two novels, The Crisis (1901) and The Crossing (1904), were also very successful.

Churchill's early novels were historical but his later works were set in contemporary America. He often sought to include his political ideas into his novels. Churchill wrote in the naturalist style of literature, and some have called him the most influential of the American naturalists.

In 1899, Churchill moved to Cornish, New Hampshire. He became involved in politics and was elected to the state legislature in 1903 and 1905. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for governor in 1906. In 1912, he was nominated as the Progressive candidate for governor but did not win the election. He did not again seek office. In 1917, he toured the battlefields of World War I and wrote about what he saw, his first non-fiction work.

Sometime after this move, he took up watercolors, and also became known for his landscapes. Some of his works are in the collections of Cornish Colony Museum in Windsor, Vermont, Hood Museum of Art (part of Hopkins Center for the Arts Dartmouth College) in Hanover, New Hampshire, and Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site in Cornish, New Hampshire.

In 1919, Churchill decided to stop writing and withdrew from public life. As a result of this he was gradually forgotten by the public. In 1940, The Uncharted Way, his first book in 20 years, was published. The book examined Churchill's thoughts on religion. He did not seek to publicize the book and it received little attention. Shortly before his death he said, "It is very difficult now for me to think of myself as a writer of novels, as all that seems to belong to another life."

Churchill died in Winter Park, Florida in 1947. He is the great-grandfather of Albany, New York, journalist Chris Churchill.

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Reviews

[Elmehdi Handazi · Rating 4 out of 5]

هذه المسرحية تحفة أدبية في المستوى؛ إنها تحيط بالكوانب المعتلة التي المنصهرة في علاقة رب العمل وعماله.

حيث أن الأول يسعى الى الانفراد بوضع السياسات العامة لمنشأته؛ مقتنعا بكل جشع أن العمال وسيلة من وسائل الانتاج.

أما الطرف الثاني العمال؛ طالما مايحملون شعلة التمرد ضده عازمين أنهم ذوو كرامة وحقوق؛ إنهم أناس لايختلفون عن أربابهم رغم الفارق المادي الكبير؛ يحق لهم كغيرهم أن يعملوا ساعات معقولة ليستمتعوا بحياة ما بعد العمل .

من حقهم أن يفرحوا أن يأخذوا إجازة... إن ذلك إن أمعن رب العمل النظر ليس حقا فحسب بل هو حافز يجعل العمال أكثر نشاط وأفضل مردودية.

لهذافإننا في مسرحيتنا وإن إقتنع في الأخير رب العمل بالموافقة على إنشاء النقابة فلأنه شر لابد منه؛ لتحقيق التوازنات.

هذه الأخيرة هي جوهر إستمرار المنشأة في تقديم خدماتها ليس للطرفين فقط بل للوطن والإنسان.

رغم تعدد شخصيات الرواية فإن تشرشل يركز على فكرتها بالأساس.

مسرحية تستحق القراءة بإمتياز 🌷🌷

[Abrar Alarjan · Rating 2 out of 5]

المسرحية جميلة لكن توقعتها اجمل .أبطالها كثر وهو شيء غير عادي ولكن قدرة هذا الروائي على أن يمسك كل شخصية ولا ينسى دورها في قصته فهو شيء جميل بل هو خطوة تحتسب له لأنه ليس كاتب مسرحيات .

تتحدث عن دكتور جوناثان من الطبقة الأرستقراطية ومع ذلك هو نزل إلى مستوى الطبقة المتوسطة العاملة الكادحة وأراد دعمهم على الابن عمه الأرستقراطي (آشر) المتمسك بمبادئه كي يناولوا مرادهم وهو إنشاء(نقابة العمال )) وكانت ورقته الرابحة ابن ولد عمه جورج الذي عمل في الجيش فرأى الطبقة العاملة عن قرب فتأثر فأراد بأن يكون مساعد لهم على أبوه . وكالعادة الجزء الاثنوي حاضر ولكن وجوده كعدمه.

[فراس المعصراني]

كلّ ما أتذكره من علم الأحياء أنّ البقاء للأمثل, ورأيت في هذه الحرب الأمثل يقتلون كالذباب.

[Kikoi · Rating 4 out of 5]

مؤخراً بدأت أحب المسرحيات هههه
المهم عن المسرحية، تتحدث عن النقابات و عن العمال
حيث أنها تسلط الضوء على أهمية النقابة للحفاظ على حقوق العمال و كرامتهم
بين مؤيد و معارض لهذه الفكرة الجديدة بالنسبة لهم
أحببت شخصية د.جوناثان كثيراً، فهو حلقة الوصل بين المؤيدين و المعارضين
هو خط الحياد الذي يلتجئ إليه الجميع من حكمةٍ يتسم بها و خِبرة
أحب مثل هذه الشخصيات أكثر من غيرها، و لا سيما تواضعه المُلفت

استمتعت بالقراءة ، كانت رحلة جميلة و ممتعة
عن النقابات، الحرب و مبادئ كل من العامل و رب العمل
عن الجيل الجديد الذي يتميز بأفكار المغامرة و حب الحرية

[Dina Adel · Rating 4 out of 5]

أعجبني الكتاب هو باختصار مسرحية تتكون من ثلاثة فصول تتحدث عن الديمقراطية الصناعية في أمريكا وقت الحرب العالمية الثانية و تظهر المسرحية شخصيات تمثل أمريكا في ذلك الوقت أعطيتها أربع نجوم لاحساسي أنها قصيرة

[Mohsen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh.