خون شهدا

by Stephen Vincent Benét, محمد‌علی مختاری‌اردکانی (Translator)

Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. The man who expected to be shot lay with his eyes open, staring at the upper left-hand corner of his cell. He was fairly well over his last beating, and they might come for him any time now. There was a yellow stain in the cell corner near the ceiling; he had liked it at first, then disliked it; now he was coming back to liking it again. He could see it more clearly with his glasses on, but he only put on his glasses for special occasions now-the first thing in the morning, and when they brought the food in, and for interviews with the General. The lenses of the glasses had been cracked in a beating some months before, and it strained his eyes to wear them too long. Fortunately, in his present life he had very few occasions demanding clear vision. But, nevertheless, the accident to his glasses worried him, as it worries all near-sighted people. You put your glasses on the first thing in the morning and the world leaps into proportion; if it does not do so, something is wrong with the world.

Genres: Short Stories

31 pages, Paperback

About the author

Stephen Vincent Benét, best known brother of William Rose Benét, also wrote John Brown's Body , his narrative poem of Civil War, in 1928. See John Brown.

A mother bore Stephen Vincent Benét into a military family. His father and Laura Benét, his sibling, also widely appreciated literature.

Benét attended Yale University and published Five Men and Pompey in 1915 and The Drug-Shop , collection, in 1917. A year of military service interrupted his studies; he worked as a cipher clerk in the same department as James Grover Thurber. He submitted his third volume of in place of a thesis, and Yale graduated him in 1919.

Stephen Vincent Benét published The Beginning of Wisdom , his first novel, in 1921. Benét then moved to France to continue his studies at the Sorbonne and returned to the United States in 1923 with the Rosemary Carr, his new wife.

Benét succeeded in many different literary forms, which included novels, short stories, screenplays, radio broadcasts, and a libretto for an opera, which Douglas Moore based on "The Devil and Daniel Webster." For his most famous long work, which interweaves historical and fictional characters to relate important events, from the raid on Harper's Ferry to surrender of Robert Edward Lee at Appomattox, he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1929.

During lifetime, Benét received the story prize of O. Henry, the Roosevelt Medal, and a second Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for the posthumously-published Western Star, the first part of an epic, based on American history. At the age of 44 years, Benét suffered a heart attack and died in New York City.

Reviews

[Saman · Rating 4 out of 5]

خون شهدا، داستانی است در مورد بیوشیمیستی به نام پروفسور مالزیوس که در زندان منتظر اجرای حکم تیرباران شدنش است و در یک سلول انفرادی داره روزگار می‌گذرونه.از نظر علمی پروفسور سطح بالایی داره و موفق به کسب جایزه نوبل هم شده. در این گیر و دار انتظار تیرباران شدن، به او پیشنهاد جدیدی میشه؛ اینکه ریاست آکادمی علمی رو بپذیره.البته یک رئیس بی اختیار تا رژیم ازش به عنوان یک بلندگوی تبلیغاتی استفاده کنه. حالا پروفسور می‌مونه سر دوراهی اینکه این سمت رو بپذیره و از شر این دوران تلخ رهایی پیدا کنه یا پایبند به خون جوانانی بمونه که بعضی‌هاش شاگردهای خودش بودند و حالا شهید شدند.... به عنوان داستان کوتاه قوی و تاثیرگذار بود.تونسته بود در صفحات کم، لحظات بعضا نفس‌گیر و مهمی رو خلق کنه و روایتگر ماجرایی باشه که در طول تاریخ در جغرافیای گوناگون تکرار و تکرار شده و این تکرار چیزی از تلخی‌اش کم نکرده.

[Amir hossein .M · Rating 4 out of 5]

داستانی در باب تسلیم نشدن در برابر دیکتاتوری!
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اگر ذره‌ای از حقیقت باقی بماند، برای همیشه باقی خواهد ماند، و همیشه کسانی خواهند بود که آن‌ها را به یاد آورند و کشف‌اش کنند. این دروغ‌گویان و زورگویان‌اند که همواره محکوم به شکست‌اند.

[Roya · Rating 5 out of 5]

به یادِ دانشگاهِ اِوین
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زندانِ شریف

[Rosa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a powerful short story, and must have been even more so back in the thirties, when Americans just didn't want to know and were trying to hide from the undeniable truth about Hitler.

[Randy D. · Rating 5 out of 5]

“The Blood of the Martyrs” is Stephen Vincent Benét's story about a college professor who didn’t sell out to a dictator’s new regime. He could have had a “position” as a “yes man” in the new social order but couldn’t bring himself to lie and be part of the dictator’s propagandist system. He joined his fellow colleagues and students who felt as he did; he could see them in his mind's eye as the three commands were given.

The Blood of the Martyrs is a thought-provoking story that illustrates the fact democracy is a fragile entity and must be protected. *****