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ماشین کلیمانجارو
برگزیدهٔ داستانهای کوتاه ری برادبری
247 pages, Paperback
First published January 22, 1965
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Ray Bradbury
2,561 books25.2k followersRay Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction.
Bradbury is best known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), and The October Country (1955). Other notable works include the coming of age novel Dandelion Wine (1957), the dark fantasy Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) and the fictionalized memoir Green Shadows, White Whale (1992). He also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including Moby Dick and It Came from Outer Space. Many of his works were adapted into television and film productions as well as comic books. Bradbury also wrote poetry which has been published in several collections, such as They Have Not Seen the Stars (2001).
The New York Times called Bradbury "An author whose fanciful imagination, poetic prose, and mature understanding of human character have won him an international reputation" and "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".
Bradbury is best known for his novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and his short-story collections The Martian Chronicles (1950), The Illustrated Man (1951), and The October Country (1955). Other notable works include the coming of age novel Dandelion Wine (1957), the dark fantasy Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) and the fictionalized memoir Green Shadows, White Whale (1992). He also wrote and consulted on screenplays and television scripts, including Moby Dick and It Came from Outer Space. Many of his works were adapted into television and film productions as well as comic books. Bradbury also wrote poetry which has been published in several collections, such as They Have Not Seen the Stars (2001).
The New York Times called Bradbury "An author whose fanciful imagination, poetic prose, and mature understanding of human character have won him an international reputation" and "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".
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October 15, 2018
Ernest Hemingway died when Ray Bradbury was in his early forties and Bradbury would have spent much of his formative years enjoying Hemingway’s travel, sport and war stories – as have many of us.
This 1965 short work, first published in Life magazine, pays loving tribute to the Nobel Prize winner who had died a couple years earlier. Set in his final home in Ketchum Idaho this follows a time traveler who is looking to give Hemingway a “good death”.
Bradbury adopts Hemingway’s succinct, journalistic prose to further make this a tribute. Making specific reference to Hemingway’s 1936 short story “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” the time traveler protagonist meets an elderly Papa, not long for this world, and offers him a sporting chance.
A good story for Bradbury and Hemingway fans.
This 1965 short work, first published in Life magazine, pays loving tribute to the Nobel Prize winner who had died a couple years earlier. Set in his final home in Ketchum Idaho this follows a time traveler who is looking to give Hemingway a “good death”.
Bradbury adopts Hemingway’s succinct, journalistic prose to further make this a tribute. Making specific reference to Hemingway’s 1936 short story “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” the time traveler protagonist meets an elderly Papa, not long for this world, and offers him a sporting chance.
A good story for Bradbury and Hemingway fans.
January 13, 2020
I really liked this story about a man fixing his father’s death to make it a good one using the time travel Kilimanjaro Device. I haven’t read much Hemingway, so I’m not sure exactly what about it makes it so reminiscent of Hemingway’s style, but no matter. A good story is a good story.
October 21, 2018
Who doesn't have regrets in their life that they would like to go back and change? We tend to think of an ideal or perfect way of doing things, and there are moments in our lives that we find cringe-worthy. When working on a project or creating art, you can go back and fix your mistakes. But you can't always do that with life. According to this story, the same thing applies to death. There is a bad way of dying and an ideal way of dying. An ideal death isn't necessarily pain-free but rather one that is aesthetically suitable throughout the ages. The protagonist knew that his father's grave didn't belong where it was. His "Kilimanjaro Device" could travel across time (and space) to help him fix his father's death and make it right. The topic of time-travel is certainly exciting, and it is touching when he gets to go back and meet his late father.
The Kilimanjaro Device was Ray Bradbury's tribute to Ernest Hemingway, deriving its name from The Snows of Kilimanjaro. Although I am not a huge fan of Hemingway, I can certainly appreciate the influence he had on Bradbury and others.
The Kilimanjaro Device was Ray Bradbury's tribute to Ernest Hemingway, deriving its name from The Snows of Kilimanjaro. Although I am not a huge fan of Hemingway, I can certainly appreciate the influence he had on Bradbury and others.
October 28, 2016
در مورد تکداستانها پیشتر اینجا نوشتهام. کلّیت کتاب به نظرم دستچینی از داستانهای بردبری به انتخاب شخص پرویز دوایی بود. از این رو بیشتر شامل داستانیهایی احساسی و شاعرانه میشد تا داستانهایی قوی در ژانر
June 10, 2018
تم بیشتر داستانها آینده و اتفاقات ترسناکی مثل نابود شدن منابع طبیعی است و بردبری تلاش میکند توجه ما را به این مسئله جلب کند. موضوع دیگر داستانها تناسخ و علاقهی نامتعارف آدمها با تفاوت سنی زیاد است. احتمالا داستانها در زمان خودشان پیشرو بودهاند اما الان کمی قدیمی شدهاند.
July 28, 2022
Amongst those literary giants of his own lands whose imagination fired Ray Bradbury's thoughts was, Ernest Hemingway such that he dedicated two short stories to his memory.
One of these was entitled The Kilimanjaro Device, that is contained in the Ray Bradbury collection I Sing the Body Electric. That is certainly where I came upon the story, and remains the only version of it that I am familiar with.
One of the few things that I know of Ernest Hemingway was that he spent some of his life in Africa, and I believe that one of his stories at least references, the Snows of Mount Kilimanjaro.
Ray Bradbury I oft time feel puts himself in the tale that he is telling, as the protagonist or merely the story teller.
What is Time, there are many treatises devoted to its ramifications? It may just be a construct of mankind to justify and measure, its own existence of no more use or value than humanity itself.
Here we are presented with a novel twist with the notion that there is or at least may well be, not only a good time to live, but a good time to die.
But surely at least in the normal run of things while we choose our way of life, we don't exactly get a chance to choose our death, or indeed the right time and place to go?
Here the teller of the tale appears at least to me to be on a voyage more of discovery, but of what exactly, himself?
Ostensibly he is on the trail of a literary hero Ernest Hemingway, of the end of his life's trail?
But what exactly does that actually consist of, what can he hope to find there?
What has been written is done and dusted surely, and can never be altered or undone?
Is his truck just a means of conveyance, or can it really traverse more than mere miles?
One of these was entitled The Kilimanjaro Device, that is contained in the Ray Bradbury collection I Sing the Body Electric. That is certainly where I came upon the story, and remains the only version of it that I am familiar with.
One of the few things that I know of Ernest Hemingway was that he spent some of his life in Africa, and I believe that one of his stories at least references, the Snows of Mount Kilimanjaro.
Ray Bradbury I oft time feel puts himself in the tale that he is telling, as the protagonist or merely the story teller.
What is Time, there are many treatises devoted to its ramifications? It may just be a construct of mankind to justify and measure, its own existence of no more use or value than humanity itself.
Here we are presented with a novel twist with the notion that there is or at least may well be, not only a good time to live, but a good time to die.
But surely at least in the normal run of things while we choose our way of life, we don't exactly get a chance to choose our death, or indeed the right time and place to go?
Here the teller of the tale appears at least to me to be on a voyage more of discovery, but of what exactly, himself?
Ostensibly he is on the trail of a literary hero Ernest Hemingway, of the end of his life's trail?
But what exactly does that actually consist of, what can he hope to find there?
What has been written is done and dusted surely, and can never be altered or undone?
Is his truck just a means of conveyance, or can it really traverse more than mere miles?
January 18, 2020
What a beautiful tribute from one great writer to another. This is a love letter, a deep heartfelt, and reverent offering. Thank you, Mr. Bradbury.
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January 5, 2021Lovely ode to Hemingway!
June 16, 2024
Bradbury sure had a sublimated, narcissistically inspired, homoerotic, predilection for Papa. In other words, he was gay for Hemingway.
February 13, 2017
حقیقتا داستان های بسیار خوبی بود
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