زندگی من و یک داستان دیگر

by Anton Chekhov, جهانگیر افکاری (Translator)

هرگاه من به فکر تهیه‌ی انگشتری می‌افتادم، می‌دادم این جمله را رویش بکنند، هیچ‌چیز از بین نمی‌رود من گمان نمی‌کنم که در حقیقت چیزی نیست نمی‌شود و همه چیز اثری از خود باقی می‌گذارد، کوچک‌ترین قدمی که ما برداریم در زندگی کنونی و حتی زندگی آینده اثر دارد.

211 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2015

About the author

Antón Chéjov (Spanish)

Dramas, such as The Seagull (1896, revised 1898), and including "A Dreary Story" (1889) of Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, also Chekov, concern the inability of humans to communicate.

Born ( Антон Павлович Чехов ) in the small southern seaport of Taganrog, the son of a grocer. His grandfather, a serf, bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841. He also taught to read. A cloth merchant fathered Yevgenia Morozova, his mother.

"When I think back on my childhood," Chekhov recalled, "it all seems quite gloomy to me." Tyranny of his father, religious fanaticism, and long nights in the store, open from five in the morning till midnight, shadowed his early years. He attended a school for Greek boys in Taganrog from 1867 to 1868 and then Taganrog grammar school. Bankruptcy of his father compelled the family to move to Moscow. At the age of 16 years in 1876, independent Chekhov for some time alone in his native town supported through private tutoring.

In 1879, Chekhov left grammar school and entered the university medical school at Moscow. In the school, he began to publish hundreds of short comics to support his mother, sisters and brothers. Nicholas Leikin published him at this period and owned Oskolki (splinters), the journal of Saint Petersburg. His subjected silly social situations, marital problems, and farcical encounters among husbands, wives, mistresses, and lust; even after his marriage, Chekhov, the shy author, knew not much of whims of young women.

Nenunzhaya pobeda , first novel of Chekhov, set in 1882 in Hungary, parodied the novels of the popular Mór Jókai. People also mocked ideological optimism of Jókai as a politician.

Chekhov graduated in 1884 and practiced medicine. He worked from 1885 in Peterburskaia gazeta.

In 1886, Chekhov met H.S. Suvorin, who invited him, a regular contributor, to work for Novoe vremya, the daily paper of Saint Petersburg. He gained a wide fame before 1886. He authored The Shooting Party , his second full-length novel, later translated into English. Agatha Christie used its characters and atmosphere in later her mystery novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd . First book of Chekhov in 1886 succeeded, and he gradually committed full time. The refusal of the author to join the ranks of social critics arose the wrath of liberal and radical intelligentsia, who criticized him for dealing with serious social and moral questions but avoiding giving answers. Such leaders as Leo Tolstoy and Nikolai Leskov, however, defended him. "I'm not a liberal, or a conservative, or a gradualist, or a monk, or an indifferentist. I should like to be a free artist and that's all..." Chekhov said in 1888.

The failure of The Wood Demon , play in 1889, and problems with novel made Chekhov to withdraw from literature for a period. In 1890, he traveled across Siberia to Sakhalin, remote prison island. He conducted a detailed census of ten thousand convicts and settlers, condemned to live on that harsh island. Chekhov expected to use the results of his research for his doctoral dissertation. Hard conditions on the island probably also weakened his own physical condition. From this journey came his famous travel book.

Chekhov practiced medicine until 1892. During these years, Chechov developed his concept of the dispassionate, non-judgmental author. He outlined his program in a letter to his brother Aleksandr: "1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality; flee the stereotype; 6. compassion." Because he objected that the paper conducted against [a:Alfred Dreyfu

Reviews

[Mehrnaz · Rating 3 out of 5]

حس میکنم شخصیت ها درست از هم تفکیک نشده بودن و نسبت به کوتاه بودن کتاب شناختن و انس گرفتن باهاشون در طول داستان سخت بود. من به جز ماشا و کلئوپاترا و شخصیت اصلی نتونستم با بقیشون ارتباطی برقرار کنم. شاید هم ایراد از ترجمه بود.

[Iman Sohrabi · Rating 2 out of 5]

در روایت روزهای عادی زندگی| هر چند تجربه زیست هر فرد منحصر به فرد است، خطوطی از آن همواره تکرار می شود دقیق و‌ بدون تغییر. این خطوط احتمالا حاوی پیام مهمی هستند این که زندگی تکرار می شود با به عبارتی رویدادهای زندگی از بین نمی رود بلکه از حالتی به حالتی دیگر تغییر شکل می دهد.

[Juwairiya A. · Rating 1 out of 5]

داستان اولی ارزش همین یک ستاره را دارد، او هم بخاطر ارزش های که میسآئیل داشت.
داستان دومی عادی بود.

[Mustapha · Rating 3 out of 5]

در زندگی باید عشق بازی کرد‌‌؛ همه ی ما این حق را داریم.آیا اینطور نیست؟ بدون عشق زندگی میسر نیست. کسی که از عشق می ترسد و می گریزد آزادی ندارد.

[Mohammadreza Noghabi · Rating 4 out of 5]

داستان اول ابتدا کمی جذاب و سپس سرد تمام شد
داستان دوم بیش از حد ساده

[Bahman Bahman · Rating 3 out of 5]

من بیرون نمی‌آمدم، پشت میز او پهلوی گنجه کتابش می‌نشستم، گنجه‌ای که پر از کتاب‌های روستایی بود، کتاب‌هایی که آن‌قدر در نظرش عزیز بود و حالا بی‌حال افتاده با حالتی غم‌زده به من می‌نگریستند. ساعت‌های متمادی که زنگ هفت و هشت و نه زده می‌شد و شب‌های پاییزی با سیاهی خود پشت پنجره‌ها را قیرگون می‌ساخت. به دستکش‌های کهنه یا قلمی که او در دست می‌گرفت و به قیچی کوچکش نگاه می‌کردم. هیچ کاری نمی‌کردم و به‌خوبی می‌فهمیدم که کارهای سابق من مانند شخم زمین یا درو تنها به‌خاطر خوشامد او بوده است. اگر او مرا مأمور کندن چاه گودی می‌کرد که تا پهلویم را آب بگیرد، بی‌چون و چرا آن کار را می‌کردم. حالا که او در کنارم نبود، ...

[Saieda Mutahar · Rating 2 out of 5]

زنده‌گی گه‌گاهی چنان جهش های خطرناکی می‌کند که آدم مبهوت می‌ماند.