The Bet By Anton Chekov
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The Bet is an 1889 short story past Anton Chekhov about a banker and a young lawyer who brand a bet with each other about whether the death penalty is better or worse than life in prison.
As the story opens, the banker recalls the occasion of the bet xv years earlier. Guests at the party that he was hosting that twenty-four hour period barbarous into a discussion of majuscule punishment; the banker argued that death penalty is more than humane than life imprisonment, while the young lawyer dis
Пари = The Bet, Anton ChekhovThe Bet is an 1889 curt story past Anton Chekhov about a banker and a young lawyer who make a bet with each other most whether the death sentence is better or worse than life in prison.
As the story opens, the banker recalls the occasion of the bet fifteen years before. Guests at the political party that he was hosting that day fell into a give-and-take of capital punishment; the broker argued that upper-case letter punishment is more humane than life imprisonment, while the young lawyer disagreed, insisting that he would choose life in prison rather than death. They agree to a bet of two million rubles that the lawyer cannot spend xv years in lonely solitude.
The bet was on, and the lawyer cast himself into isolation for fifteen years. The man spends his time in confinement reading books, writing, playing piano, studying, drinking wine, and educating himself.
We find him continuously growing throughout the story. We run into various phases in his term of imprisonment over the years. At first, the lawyer suffered from astringent loneliness and low. But before long he began studying vigorously. He begins with languages and other related subjects. So, a mix of science, literature, philosophy and other seemingly random subjects. He ends up reading some six hundred volumes in the form of iv years.
Then, the Gospel followed by theology and histories of religion. In the last ii years, the imprisoned lawyer read immensely on chemistry, medicine and philosophy, and sometimes works of Byron or Shakespeare. In the concurrently, the banker'south fortune declines and he realizes that if he loses, paying off the bet will leave him bankrupt.
The day before the xv-year period concludes, the banker resolves to kill the lawyer and then as to not owe him the money. On his way to exercise so, yet, the banker finds a note written by the lawyer. The note declares that in his time in confinement he has learned to despise material goods as fleeting things, and he believes that divine conservancy is worth more than coin. To this terminate he elects to renounce the reward of the bet.
The banker was moved and shocked to his bones after reading the note, kisses the strange man on the head and leaves the lodge weeping, relieved not to take to impale anyone.
The prison house warden afterward reports that the lawyer has left the guest business firm on the day earlier the xv twelvemonth mark, thus losing the bet. The banker takes the notation and locks information technology in his safety.
تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز بیست و یکم ماه فوریه سال2015میلادی
عنوان فارسی: شرط بندی؛ نویسنده: آنتون چخوف؛ در مجموعه داستانهای کوتاه با عنوان: دشمن ها، با ترجمه: فروزان ساعدی؛ در64ص، در سال1388، نشر کوله پشتی؛ موضوع داستانهای کوتاه نویسندگان روسیه - سده 19م
متن داستان کوتاه، شرط بندی
شبی تاریک و پائیزی بود؛ بانکدارِ پیر در حالیکه با گامهای آهسته و یکنواخت در اتاق کارش از گوشه ای به گوشه ای دیگر میرفت، میهمانی ای را که پائیز پانزده سال پیش تدارک دیده بود به خاطر میآورد. نوابغ زیادی در مهمانی حضور داشتند و حرفهای بسیار جالبی رد و بدل زده میشد. در خلالِ بحث درباره ی موضوعات گوناگون، صحبت از مجازات اعدام نیز به میان آمد. بیشتر مهمانان که در میانشان محقق و روزنامه نگار هم کم نبود، اکثرا مخالف مجازات اعدام بودند، و آن را ابزاری منسوخ برای مجازات، ناشایست برای حکومتی مسیحی، و غیراخلاقی میدانستند. بعضی از آنها معتقد بودند که حبس ابد باید در تمام دنیا جایگزینِ اعدام شود
میزبان گفت: من با شما موافق نیستم. خود من نه اعدام را تجربه کرده ام، نه حبس ابد را، اما اگر کسی بخواهد ارجحتر را بیابد، آن زمان به نظر من مجازات اعدام، اخلاقیتر و انسانیتر از حبس ابد است. اعدام بلافاصله میکشد، حبس ابد به تدریج. کدام جلاد انسانیتر است؟ کسی که شما را ظرف چند ثانیه بکشد یا کسی که در چندین سال، پیوسته شما را از پای درآورد؟
یکی از میهمانان خاطرنشان کرد: هر دوی آنها به یک اندازه غیراخلاقی هستند، زیرا هدف آنها یکی ست و آن گرفتن زندگی است. دولت خدا نیست، دولت حتی اگر بخواهد، حق گرفتن چیزی را که قادر به بازگرداندن آن نیست ندارد
در میان جمع وکیلی که جوانی بیست و پنج ساله بود، حضور داشت. وقتی نظرش را پرسیدند، پاسخ داد: مجازات اعدام و حبس ابد به یک اندازه غیراخلاقی است. اما اگر از من بخواهند یکی از آنها را انتخاب کنم، مطمئنا دومی را انتخاب خواهم کرد. زندگی کردن به هر طریقی هم که باشد بهتر از اصلا زندگی نکردن است
این گفتگو تبدیل به بحثی داغ شده بود. بانکدار که آن زمان جوانتر و پرشورتر بود، ناگهان کنترلش را از دست داد، مشت خود را بر روی میز کوبید، به طرف وکیل برگشت، و فریاد زد: این دروغ است. من با شما دومیلیون شرط میبندم که حتی پنج سال هم در یک سلول دوام نمیآورید
وکیل جواب داد: اگر واقعا جدی گفتید. شرط میبندم که نه پنج سال بلکه پانزده سال دوام خواهم آورد
بانکدار فریاد کشید: قبول است! آقایان من دومیلیون شرط میبندم
وکیل گفت: قبول است. شما دومیلیون شرط میبندید، من آزادی ام را
بدین ترتیب این شرطبندی مضحک و مخاطره آمیز انجام شد
بانکدار که در آن زمان میلیونها و کرورها پول برای ولخرجی و هوسرانی داشت، از شادمانی خود را باخته بود. در طول شام به شوخی به وکیل گفت: مرد جوان، پیش از اینکه دیر شود سر عقل بیا. دومیلیون برای من پولی نیست اما تو سه یا چهار سال از بهترین دوران زندگی ات را از دست خواهی داد. میگویم سه یا چهار، زیرا هرگز بیشتر طاقت نخواهی آورد. در ضمن مرد بیچاره، فراموش نکن که حبس داوطلبانه بسیار سخت تر از حبس تحمیلی است. فکر اینکه هر لحظه این حق را داری که خود را آزاد کنی تمام زندگی را برایت در سلول زهر میکند. دلم برایت میسوزد
و اکنون بانکدار، از گوشه ای به گوشه دیگر گام برمیداشت و تمام اینها را بخاطر میآورد و از خود میپرسید: چرا من این شرط را بستم؟ فایده اش چیست؟ وکیل پانزده سال از عمرش را ازدست میدهد و من دو میلیون را دور میریزم. آیا این کار مردم را قانع خواهد کرد که مجازات اعدام بهتر یا بدتر از حبس ابد است؟ نه، نه! تمام اینها مُحمَل و پوچ است. در نظر من این کار هوی و هوسی از روی شکم سیری بود و از نظرِ وکیل طمعِ محض برای طلا. او سپس آنچه بعد از مهمانی اتفاق افتاد را نیز به خاطر آورد. تصمیم بر این شد که وکیل باید به زندانی شدن تحت مراقبت شدید در گوشه ای از باغِ خانه ی بانکدار تن دردهد. توافق شد که در طول این مدت او از حق وارد شدن به خانه، دیدن مردم، شنیدن صدای مردم و دریافت نامه و روزنامه محروم خواهد بود. او اجازه داشت یک
آلت موسیقی داشته باشد، کتاب بخواند، نامه بنویسد، مشروب بنوشد و سیگار بکشد. طبق توافقنامه، او میتوانست تنها در سکوت از طریق پنجره ی کوچکی که برای همین کار ساخته شده بود، با دنیای خارج ارتباط داشته باشد. او میتوانست هر تعداد لوازم مورد نیاز، کتاب، موسیقی یا نوشیدنی را با فرستادن یادداشتی از پنجره دریافت کند. توافقنامه، ریزترین جزئیات را نیز دربرمیگرفت که در دوران حبس وکیل را به شدت منزوی میکرد. و او را ملزم میساخت که از ساعت دوازده، تاریخ چهارده نوامبر ؟؟؟؟، دقیقا پانزده سال تا ساعت دوازده تاریخ چهارده نوامبر ؟؟؟؟ در حبس بماند. کوچکترین تلاش وکیل برای تخطی از شرایط؛ حتی فرار دو دقیقه قبل از موعد مقرر، انکدار را از تعهد پرداخت دو میلیون به او خلاص میساخت
در اولین سال حبس، وکیل، تا آنجا که از روی یاداشتهای کوتاهش میشد قضاوت کرد، شدیدا از تنهایی و انزوا رنج میبرد. ازاتاق او روز و شب صدای پیانو میآمد. او مشروب و دخانیات را رد کرد و نوشت: مشروب باعث برانگیخته شدن امیال شده واین امیال بزرگترین دشمنان یک زندانی هستند. به علاوه هیچ چیز خسته کننده تر از نوشیدن شراب خوب در تنهایی نیست و دخانیات نیز باعث آلوده شدن هوای اتاق میشود
در طول سال اول، برای وکیل کتاب هایی با شخصیت های ساده، رمان های پیچیده ی عاشقانه، داستان های بذهکاری و تخیلی، کمدی و از این قبیل فرستاده میشد.
درسال دوم صدای پیانو دیگر شنیده نمیشد، وکیل تنها تقاضای شراب میکرد. آنهایی که او را دیدند، گفتند که او در تمام آن سال فقط میخورد، مینوشید و بر روی تخت دراز میکشید. او اغلب خمیازه میکشید و با عصبانیت با خود حرف میزد. دیگر کتاب نخواند. بعضی مواقع شبها مینشست تا بنویسد. او زمان زیادی را صرف نوشتن میکرد. و صبح، تمام آنها را پاره میکرد. و صدای گریه و زاری اش چندین بار به گوش رسید
در نیمه دوم ششمین سال، زندانی مشتاقانه شروع به یادگیری زبان، فلسفه و تاریخ کرد. او آنچنان حریصانه به این موضوعات علاقه مند شده بود که بانکدار به سختی وقت میکرد برای او به انداره کافی کتاب تهیه کند. در فاصله چهار سال در حدود ششصد نسخه به درخواست او خریداری شد. مدتی از این اشتیاق سپری شده بود تا اینکه بانکدار نامه ای از زندانی دریافت کرد: زندانبان عزیز من، من این متن را به شش زبان مینویسم. آن را به متخصصان نشان بده و بگذار آنرا بخوانند. اگر آنها حتی یک غلط هم پیدا نکردند از تو خواهش میکنم که دستور دهی تا در باغ گلوله ای شلیک کنند. با این صدا من میفهمم که تلاش هایم بیهوده نبوده است. نوابغ در هر زمان و هر کشوری به زبان های مختلف صحبت میکنند. اما در وجود تمام آنها یک شعله فروزان است. آه، اگر شما خوشحالی وجد انگیز مرا میدانستید که اکنون میتوانم تمام زبان ها را بفهمم
درخواست زندانی اجابت شد
به دستور بانکدار دو گلوله در باغ شلیک شد
بعدها، پس از دهمین سال ، وکیل بی حرکت پشت میز مینشست و فقط کتاب انجیل عهد جدید میخواند. برای بانکدار عجیب بود که مردی که در چهار سال، ششصد نسخه کتاب آموزنده را فراگرفته بود باید نزدیک به یک سال را به خواندن کتابی بپردازد که فهم آن آسان بود و به هیچ عنوان دشوار نبود. سپس کتاب تاریخ ادیان و الهیات جایگزین کتاب انجیل عهد جدید شد
در دو سال آخر حبس، زندانی تعداد قابل توجهی کتاب، با موضوعات کاملا بی ربط میخواند. او خود را وقف خواندن علوم طبیعی کرد و سپس شکسپیر و یا بایرون میخواند. یادداشتهایی که از او میآمد در یک زمان درخواست فرستادن یک کتاب شیمی و یک متن پزشکی، یک رمان، تعدادی مقالات با موضوعات فلسفی و الهیات میکرد. او آنچنان میخواند که انگار در دریایی میان بقایای شکسته در حال شنا بود. و به امید نجات زندگی اش مشتاقانه به هر قطعه بعد از دیگری چنگ میانداخت
ترجمه: محمدرضا نوشمند؛ چون همه ی داستان در این ریویو نگنجید لطفا بخش دوم و دنباله ی همین داستان کوتاه را در کامنت همین ریویو بخوانید
تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 23/10/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ Les Thibault = The Thibaults (Les Thibault #one-half-dozen), Roger Martin du Gard
The Thibaults is a multi-book novel by Roger Martin du Gard, which follows the fortunes of 2 brothers, Antoine and Jacques Thibault, from their upbringing in a prosperous Catholic conservative family to the end of the First World War. The writer was awarded the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature largely on the basis of this novel sequence.
1. Le Cahier Gris ("The Grey Notebook") opens in Paris around 1904. Schoolhouse officials have discovered a notebook containing messages betwixt Jacques Thibault and a Protestant beau schoolboy, Daniel de Fontanin. The notebooks give evidence of a passionate, but not patently sexual, relationship between the 2. Expecting that the notebook will be misinterpreted, the two run abroad to Marseille, intending to travel to North Africa by ship. Jacques's begetter Oscar Thibault, a stern Catholic grand bourgeois, dispatches his older son, Antoine, a medical student, to retrieve his younger brother. ...
2. Le Pénitencier ("The Prison" or "The Reformatory") resumes the narrative several months later. Antoine visits Jacques in the reformatory at Crouy, where he is disturbed by the boy's isolation and ill-handling. Determined to rescue him, he confronts his father, who reacts with rage but is eventually persuaded to allow Jacques to exist released and to alive away from his father'south roof under Antoine's supervision. Confronting his father'southward wishes, Antoine permits Jacques to see Daniel and his family, and the boys' friendship is renewed, though it becomes less intense. ...
three. La Belle Saison picks up the narrative approximately 5 years afterward. Jacques learns that he has been accustomed to the École normale, apparently securing his futurity prospects. To celebrate, the brothers and Daniel agree to meet at a nightclub, where Daniel is introduced to a immature adult female, known as Rinette, who is being debuted as a prostitute in hopes of securing a wealthy patron (Daniel's employer Ludwigson, an art dealer). Rinette has some fourth dimension earlier given nascency to a kid out of wedlock, who subsequently died. Disregarding the plan, Daniel leaves the gild in the visitor of Rinette, who tells him that he looks familiar and asks him his name. When she learns his identity she is horrified and starts to flee, just and then changes her listen and astonishes Daniel past declaring that she wants to take his baby. In the meantime, we learn that Antoine, who has not arrived at the guild, had been called out to tend to a young girl who has been gravely injured in an accident. While performing life-saving surgery in the apartment where the daughter lives he is assisted by a neighbor, Rachel, with whom he before long begins a passionate affair. ...
4. La Consultation, begins afterwards a lapse of roughly three years. It is now 1913; Antoine has a thriving medical practise, Jacques has disappeared under circumstances that are not withal clear, and their begetter is terminally sick. The de Fontanins have receded, for at present, into a peripheral role. Much of the narrative centers on Antoine'southward patients; one of these, a gravely ill baby, is the girl of Daniel's cousin Nicole, who is now married to a physician named Héquet. ...
5. La Sorellina begins with Jacques unaccounted for. His bilious father believes that he has committed suicide, just Antoine discovers that someone using the proper name "Jack Baulthy" has recently published a novella in a Swiss magazine and quickly determines that the author is his brother. Written in a florid style and gear up in Italy, the novella, which itself is entitled La sorellina ("The Little Sister" in Italian) proves to exist a roman à clef. Its hero, Giuseppe, has defied his devoutly Catholic father and fallen in love with a young English Protestant named Sybil (based on Jenny); but he has likewise developed an agog—and reciprocated—allure for his younger sister Annetta, a graphic symbol clearly modeled on Gise. ...
six. La Mort Du Père ("The Decease of the Father") opens as the brothers take a railroad train back to Paris, just Oscar Thibault is now then ill and shut to death that he isn't aware of Jacques'due south presence. At the climax of a long and meticulously described deathbed scene, Antoine finally administers a dose of morphine to accelerate the inevitable. With Oscar dead, Antoine goes through his father's papers and effects and finds some photographs and messages that suggest that he may secretly have adult a sentimental attachment of some kind to another woman in the years after his wife'due south expiry. Gise has returned from London; although she hasn't seen Jacques for three years she remains desperately in beloved with him, simply Jacques makes it clear that her feelings are not reciprocated. ...
7. fifty'Été 1914 ("Summer 1914"), the longest of the 8 volumes, is set in the period leading up to and including the beginning of World State of war I. Antoine Thibault is now a well-to-do physician who is having an affair with a married adult female, Anne de Battaincourt; his blood brother Jacques, on the other hand, is a committed socialist who spends much of his time among radical political circles in Geneva. Much of the narrative centers on the activities of the various socialist and radical groups in the face of the possible outbreak of war between the great powers of Europe. Daniel de Fontanin, by now a promising painter, is continuing his military service, but is called domicile when his father, Jérôme, commits suicide subsequently being accused of embezzlement. Daniel and Jacques, who have not seen each other for some fourth dimension, encounter again in Paris, merely their friendship is strained past the diverging paths their lives are taking. ...
viii. Epilogue centers on Antoine Thibault and is set in 1918.
تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز دوازدهم ماه دسامبر سال1993میلادی
عنوان: خانوادۀ تیبو دورۀ چهارجلدی؛ نویسنده: روژه مارتن دوگار؛ مترجم: ابوالحسن نجفی؛ مشخصات نشر: تهران، نیلوفر، روز27، ماه مهر سال1370، در2348ص، شابک9644480709؛ موضوع داستانهای نویسندگان فرانسه - سده 20م
انگار کنید یک «جان شیفته»ی دیگر، اینبار با قلم سحرانگیز «روژه مارتن دوگار» میخوانید، رمان بلندی است که «روژه مارتن دوگار (از سال1881میلادی تا سال1958میلادی)» نویسنده ی فرانسوی و برنده ی جایزه نوبل ادبیات، بنگاشته است؛ این رمان از سویی به بررسی رخدادهای «اروپا» در سالهای نخستین سده بیستم میلادی، و سپس به سالهای جنگ اول جهانگیر، و از دیگر سو همگام، به شرح رخدادهای خانواده ی ثروتمند، و فرهیخته ی فرانسوی، یعنی خانواده ی «تیبو» می‌پردازد؛ فرزند کوچک این خانواده «ژاک تیبو»، با روح سرکش، و رام نشدنی خویش، سرنوشت خود را در دنیای پیرامونش می‌جوید، و خانواده را ترک می‌گوید؛ او در تعامل با اندیشه های سوسیالیستی خویش، به تضاد با خوشبختی و زندگی ایده آل، در کنار کسی که دوستش دارد، می‌رسد؛ عده ای از هواخواهان رماننویسی کلاسیک، این رمان را، بزرگترین رمان سده ی بیستم میلادی می‌دانند؛ این رمان در هشت کتاب منتشر شده، که عناوین آنها به شرح زیر است: «دفترچه خاکستری»؛ «ندامتگاه»؛ «فصل گرم»؛ «طبابت»؛ «سورلینا»؛ «مرگ پدر»؛ «تابستان سال1914میلادی»، «سرانجام»؛
کتاب را جناب آقای «ابوالحسن نجفی» به فارسی برگردانده اند، و در چهار مجلد، انتشارات نیلوفر آن را منتشر کرده است؛ تصویرسازی‌های کتاب توسط جناب آقای «قباد شیوا» انجام شده است، و موخره ای نیز به قلم «آلبر کامو»، با ترجمه ی جناب آقای «منوچهر بدیعی» در انتهای کتاب آرمیده است
تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 30/07/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ ten/08/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی
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Anton Chekhov`s The Bet is a perfect case of something where the depth is so much deeper and the foundation is so much stronger than what is visible from the outside and what we can realise or fifty-fifty retrieve or imagine! Sure, it is a 'brusk story', but clearly The Bet carries more weight than many of the long stories. This shall remain among the greatest stories, the always-green, the thought-provoking and the classics.
During a gather in a banker`southward home, the give-and-take among
My kickoff Chekhov!Anton Chekhov`due south The Bet is a perfect example of something where the depth is and so much deeper and the foundation is and so much stronger than what is visible from the outside and what nosotros can realise or even think or imagine! Certain, it is a 'short story', merely conspicuously The Bet carries more weight than many of the long stories. This shall remain among the greatest stories, the always-green, the idea-provoking and the classics.
During a get together in a banker`s abode, the discussion among the gathered intellectuals turns toward the topic of capital punishment. The banker argues for death penalisation and a lawyer leads the other side of the group by against death sentence and mentions that life imprisonment is the correct selection. This debate leads to a bet between the banker and the lawyer. The lawyer agrees to keep an 'imprisonment' for 15 years with no human contact, in return for two meg rubles from the banker.
The Bet is nearly the stupidity that comes along with beingness an intellect, perils of idealism, the human selfishness and selflessness and value of human touch and interaction. The story prompt the reader to think, question themselves, claiming their perspectives and form a basis for a certain stance.
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—Bernard Kerik
A wealthy broker holds a party at his commodious habitation, where a group of intellectuals argue as to which is the more humane punishment: a swift execution, or life imprisonment in a Russian jail. 1 kills swiftly, the other past degrees.
A young lawyer, asserting that he'd much prefer incarceration, and a life of sorts, to sure death, is tempted into a wager (in this case, a huge sum of money) levied by the banker that the youn
—Bernard Kerik
A wealthy banker holds a political party at his commodious habitation, where a group of intellectuals argue every bit to which is the more humane punishment: a swift execution, or life imprisonment in a Russian jail. One kills swiftly, the other by degrees.
A immature lawyer, asserting that he'd much prefer incarceration, and a life of sorts, to certain decease, is tempted into a wager (in this instance, a huge sum of coin) levied past the banker that the young pup would soon alter his mind were he to lose his freedom for real.
And so the lawyer is ready in solitary confinement in the broker's house with but the barest essentials, and no contact with the outside globe for an agreed duration of fifteen years.
The human experiment that follows is wholly intriguing. How far would someone go to either bear witness a point or get their easily on a large amount of cash? How volition the banker fare, knowing that his boozy blowing has led to such an extreme collision?
This emblematic tale is presented in the form of a very curt story and fascinated me from starting time to end. A thought-provoking concept, cleverly executed.
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Whether you would adopt death to life imprisonment may depend on many things: whether y'all're guilty, and if not, how much you trust the appeals organisation; your health and how sometime you lot are; and what the prison conditions are like.
This fascinating fiddling apologue starts with intellectual party guests comparing the relative morality of uppercase penalization with life imprisonment:
"Execution kills
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Whether you lot would prefer death to life imprisonment may depend on many things: whether yous're guilty, and if not, how much y'all trust the appeals organisation; your wellness and how old you are; and what the prison conditions are like.
This fascinating fiddling allegory starts with intellectual party guests comparing the relative morality of death sentence with life imprisonment:
"Execution kills instantly, life-imprisonment kills past degrees."
A young lawyer boldly claims "It'southward better to live somehow than not to live at all."
If everyone thought that, vets would never put pets "to sleep" and euthanasia for humans would not be an issue. But he puts his coin where his mouth is: if he tin can endure 15 years of solitary solitude, he'll win two meg from his host.
What Price Happiness?
Although the lawyer is immune no human contact, not even to hear a human vocalism, he can request (on paper) any amount of food, vino, tobacco, books - and a piano. That doesn't sound so bad - for two million advantage, on which he could alive comfortably thereafter.
But what about the host? He might mayhap lose a lot of coin, but if not, what will he proceeds? Will anyone have their minds changed?
Knowledge
Flick: The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Pieter Paul Rubens
The lawyer'south requests change dramatically. Some years he barely reads, but others
"He read as though he were pond in the sea among the broken pieces of wreckage, and in his want to relieve his life was eagerly grasping one piece after some other."
His irresolute choices reflect his mood and mindset, or vice versa. He acquires vast knowledge, but will that be a blessing or a curse?
Read it to detect out.
Quick, Free, Worthwhile Read
This story is costless to read on Gutenberg, with other Checkov short stories: HERE. This particular story will take you barely ten minutes to read, but you'll be thinking about it long later on.
Thanks to Kevin for pointing me to this.
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A group of men, including a wealthy banker and a young lawyer, are discussing whether the expiry penalization is improve than a life sentence in prison. In that location is much contend that eventually leads to the banker having a bet with the young lawyer, with surprising results. It seems that both of them take a very important lesson to learn in life!It's complimentary hither http://www.gutenberg.org/files/55283/...
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Reading The Bet is part of my connected effort to read more authors of classics, simply in a brusk form that fits my brusk attention span. If you lot appr
This short story is a treasure, and it requires an investment of less than ten minutes of reading time. That is, unless --like me --you are in such awe of Chekhov'due south language ( albeit in translation) -- that you lot read it several times, including once aloud to a spouse or friend. Non to belabor the obvious, but The Bet is Russian, with all that entails.Reading The Bet is function of my continued effort to read more authors of classics, only in a brusk grade that fits my short attention span. If you appreciate the classics, but don't accept the fourth dimension or willingness to commit to 600+ folio "1001 books to read before you die" works, join me in sharing novellas and short stories written by the masters of both the Western and Eastern canons.
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that one...although that one was completely awesome. I'm talking about the episode that takes identify in that stuffy mens lodge where rich, condescending and obnoxious older guy bets poor, talkative and obnoxious younger guy $500K that junior can't stay completely silent for an entire year.
And recall the scrumptiously out-boffing-continuing ending (as only the Zone could exercise) when Mr. loquacious wins the bet from Colonel shitsack Call up that really trippy Twilight Zone episode...
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that one...although that one was completely awesome. I'1000 talking virtually the episode that takes place in that stuffy mens order where rich, condescending and obnoxious older guy bets poor, talkative and obnoxious younger guy $500K that junior can't stay completely silent for an entire year. And call up the scrumptiously out-boffing-standing ending (as simply the Zone could exercise) when Mr. loquacious wins the bet from Colonel shitsack and we become the big reveal that he severed his own vocal chords in order to be victorious...only to learn in some perverted, "gift of the magi" irony that old dude had earlier lost all of his coin.
Damn...I miss that prove.
Anyhow, Rod Serling, in his infinite luminescence, must have borrowed the bones storyline for the above from the brusk story The Bet by Chekhov
No...not that one, although again that one was pretty crawly. I'm talking virtually Anton Chekhov, one of the finest writers of short fiction in the history of the
This is some other classic brusk story available for free here The Bet. The plot revolves story around an statement over which is the harsher sanction: the expiry penalisation or life imprisonment. This leads to a wager between a rich broker and a immature lawyer requiring the youngster to spend fifteen years in solitary confinement for which he volition win $2M.
The catastrophe, while non as twisty and O.Henry as the Twilight Zone episode, is poignantly satisfying and well washed. Brusk, well written and with something to say, this is certainly worth the ten minutes or and so it will take you to read.
3.0 to 3.5 stars. Recommended.
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A wealthy banker throws a party; in that location'south lots of intellectual discussion that winds upward focusing on the question: Is a life judgement of solitary confinement actually less cruel than death sentence?
A brash young lawyer argues that impr
I love getting my historic Russian author doses in short story grade (maybe one of these days I'll accept on a full-length classic Russian novel, but that solar day has not withal arrived). "The Bet" is free here on Project Gutenberg (along with lots of other Chekhov stories).A wealthy broker throws a political party; there's lots of intellectual discussion that winds upwardly focusing on the question: Is a life sentence of solitary confinement actually less cruel than capital penalty?
A brash young lawyer argues that imprisonment is better than expiry, and he and the broker cease up making a wild bet: the broker volition set up upwardly a place of solitary confinement on his estate, and the lawyer will submit to information technology for xv years. If the lawyer can stick information technology out for the full xv years - not a moment less - the broker will pay him two million.
It was decided that the lawyer must undergo his imprisonment under the strictest observation, in a garden-wing of the banker'south house. Information technology was agreed that during the menstruation he would exist deprived of the correct to cross the threshold, to come across living people, to hear human being voices, and to receive letters and newspapers. He was permitted to take a musical musical instrument, to read books, to write letters, to drink vino and fume tobacco. Past the understanding he could communicate, but only in silence, with the exterior world through a piddling window particularly constructed for this purpose. Everything necessary, books, music, wine, he could receive in any quantity by sending a note through the window.The plot is straightforward, only the ideas and prose drag it to something that is well worth reading and pondering. It'south a different, thoughtful kind of tale with 1 major twist to it that I didn't run across coming. (view spoiler)[The murderous decision of the banker surprised me. (hibernate spoiler)] And I don't think the concluding resolution - for either the banker or the lawyer - is as straightforward as it may seem at first glance. George Saunders, writer of Lincoln in the Bardo, says information technology succinctly here, in an interview where he talks about why he loves Chekhov's stories:
That's ane of my favorite things about Chekhov: his power to embody what I call "on the other paw" thinking. He'll put something out with a dandy bargain of certainty and beauty and passion, absolutely convincing you—and then he goes, "On the other paw," and completely undermines information technology. At the stop of this story you lot enquire, "Chekhov, is happiness a blessing or a curse?" And he'southward similar, "Yep, exactly."Yes, exactly. ...more than
There had been many clever men there, and there had been interesting conversations.
They were discussing the issue of capital punishment. The principal betoken of their argue may be summed up in the post-obit question. Should the death penalty be replaced by life imprisonment, no thing how horrible a committed crime is?
The banker and i of his guests, a young lawyer, disagre
The story opens with a dark fall dark. 1 broker, who looks tired and worried, remembers the political party he gave many years ago.There had been many clever men there, and there had been interesting conversations.
They were discussing the issue of death penalty. The main point of their debate may exist summed upward in the post-obit question. Should the death sentence exist replaced by life imprisonment, no matter how horrible a committed crime is?
The banker and one of his guests, a immature lawyer, disagree on this matter. The host of the party is for the death penalty, whereas the lawyer considers taking away life even more than inhuman. According to him:
"The capital punishment and the life sentence are as immoral, simply if I had to cull between the death penalty and imprisonment for life, I would certainly cull the second. To live anyhow is better than not at all."
Instead of coming up with a sort of compromise, fifty-fifty an unsatisfactory one, the two men make the strangest bet 1 has ever heard of. Its result has to determine which of the 2 men is closer to the truth. The lawyer seems to be ready to put his neck on the line to testify his betoken.
Many years accept passed since the bet was made. The stakes could not be college. The banker feels like he rapidly loses grasp upon the events. He finds himself in an extremely difficult position in terms of both finance and conscience.
The Bet tin can be read here.
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While the main focus is on the manner of punishment for the wrongdoers, Chekhov throws in philosophy in the second part of the story. The imprisoned lawyer studies many subjects thoroughly and becomes a sort of virtuoso. He gains "wisdom" through his learning and sees the world in a unlike light. The banker, on the other hand, living a delusional life slowly loses his wealth and becomes corrupt in listen. There is a huge amount of irony hither. The imprisoned man reflects on worldly subjects and casts them off equally irrelevant for life's happiness while the costless man is weighed downwards with worldly subjects believing that they are the necessities in life and is living himself in a prison unaware of beingness living in one.
This is my first effort at Chekhov, and I'm really impressed with his writing and thinking. I actually want to explore him further in the future.
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One of the remarkable short story I have ever read.
Precisely, the best 10 minutes read with long lasting impact.
'Death sentence is more than moral and more humane than imprisonment. Execution kills instantly, life-imprisonment kills by degrees. Who is the more than humane executioner, one who kills you in a few seconds or one who draws the life out of you incessantly, for years?"
"Death penalty and life-imprisonment are equally immoral; but if I were offered the option between
Terribly terrific.One of the remarkable short story I have always read.
Precisely, the best 10 minutes read with long lasting impact.
'Uppercase punishment is more moral and more humane than imprisonment. Execution kills instantly, life-imprisonment kills by degrees. Who is the more humane executioner, one who kills you in a few seconds or ane who draws the life out of you endlessly, for years?"
"Majuscule punishment and life-imprisonment are equally immoral; only if I were offered the choice between them, I would certainly choose the second. It's better to live somehow than not to live at all."
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"Yous have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. Yous have taken lies for truth, and hideous "And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this earth. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, similar a delusion. You lot may be proud, wise, and fine, but expiry will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you lot were no more than than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.
"Yous have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. Yous have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You lot would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards of a sudden grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating equus caballus; so I marvel at you who exchange sky for earth. I don't want to empathise y'all... ...more
With dreams of wealth and vindication shining at the end of
During a political party held by a wealthy broker, the question of death sentence is broached. Is it ameliorate to take your life taken a day at a time in confinement, or die all at once by execution? One particular boyfriend insists it is better to live a lilliputian than non at all and upon this declaration, he is offered a large sum of cash to bear witness the level of his conviction. The wager states that he must live confined entirely for 15 years.With dreams of wealth and vindication shining at the end of his incarceration, the challenge is accustomed and the trip the light fantastic begins.
The Bet is a concise but compelling read. I recommend it!
I am truly in awe of this piece of work. Such a treasure!
I and then enjoy the eloquence of this short story.
Chekhov's descriptive passages vividly illustrate the transformation of life and thought during the passage of time, imprisoned, only to be traded for true freedom. His writing surely gives you lot pause to consider the lesson learned in this wager of opinions.
I just must read more of Anton Chekhov!
The short story is a legend that shows the lawyer making a surprising decision at the end, based on what he found was of import. 3.5 stars.
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Execution or imprisonment? Two characters -the lawyer and the banker. Anton Chekhov, similar many of his Russian contemporaries knew how to go right into the very core of a human's soul. Philosophical examination that even so seems timely today.
Audio narrated by Walter Zimmerman (xix minutes)Execution or imprisonment? Ii characters -the lawyer and the banker. Anton Chekhov, like many of his Russian contemporaries knew how to become correct into the very core of a man'south soul. Philosophical exam that withal seems timely today.
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A banker and a lawyer, flooded with party-rapture, make up one's mind upon a bet where the broker would pay two 1000000 rupees to the lawyer if he fulfilled the dare of 15 years of self-imprisonment —the commitment to it staying uninterrupted throughout. The bet is launched when the lawyer casually voiced his preference for life imprisonment over capital punishment. What follows is null
"The idea that you take the right to free yourself at whatsoever moment will toxicant the whole of your life in the prison cell."A banker and a lawyer, flooded with party-rapture, decide upon a bet where the banker would pay two million rupees to the lawyer if he fulfilled the dare of fifteen years of self-imprisonment —the delivery to it staying uninterrupted throughout. The bet is launched when the lawyer casually voiced his preference for life imprisonment over death sentence. What follows is zero short of revolutionary.
This is my first reading of the legendary author, Anton Chekhov, and truth be told, I am struck with atheism. Skilfully intertwining a powerful fable with the capricious undertakings of his two master characters, his authorial skill twists the reader around his pinkie, leaving them mistakenly expectant of a fun-twist.
I volition describe his writing using the following words: drama-free, acutely vivid, and creative. Because the conscience boot of his parable and then sharply caught me unawares, it has left me with no choice but to highly recommend this twenty-minute, short story to everyone!
It is available for online reading at https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/55283
I thank writer Kevin Ansbro for recommending this short story to me.
His fantastic review tin can be constitute here->https://goodreads.com/review/testify/24
No. You may gain wisdom through books, you may become familiar with new experiences through books, you may go pleasure from books simply you tin not alive a life through books.
You shall never feel the existent love, by reading the best romance, or experience the existent terror by reading a horror book. Living an feel is something far different from reading it.
Merely because it didn't have me long time to read information technology, I recall i.five stars is fare.
I simply felt the book is trying to disparage life.No. You lot may gain wisdom through books, you may go familiar with new experiences through books, you lot may get pleasure from books but you can not live a life through books.
Y'all shall never feel the real dear, by reading the best romance, or feel the real terror by reading a horror book. Living an feel is something far different from reading information technology.
Only considering it didn't take me long fourth dimension to read it, I think 1.5 stars is fare.
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The story value is non in its events or characters, but, in the philosophy behind it. The bet, curt story doesn't have more than than fifteen minutes to be finished, by Anton Chekhov. Stimulate humans thinking about life and decease, and how reading to answer the questions about our selfs can change and modify a lot of behavior, opinions and how we run across the world.
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Exercise we really appreciate our life? Tin can nosotros change our dark spots into brilliant ones? What is the large lesson we accept learned through our lives?
A classic Russian short story that uniquely centers on the consequence death penalty versus imprisonment and a bet made between a banker and a lawyer. A good story for group discussion.
"When I think back on my childhood," Chekh
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Антон Павлович Чехов ) was born in the modest seaport of Taganrog, southern Russia, the son of a grocer. Chekhov's grandfather was a serf, who had bought his own freedom and that of his three sons in 1841. He besides taught himself to read and write. Yevgenia Morozova, Chekhov'due south female parent, was the girl of a cloth merchant."When I think back on my childhood," Chekhov recalled, "it all seems quite gloomy to me." His early years were shadowed by his male parent's tyranny, religious fanaticism, and long nights in the store, which was open from 5 in the morning till midnight. He attended a school for Greek boys in Taganrog (1867-68) and Taganrog grammar schoolhouse (1868-79). The family was forced to movement to Moscow following his father's bankruptcy. At the age of 16, Chekhov became independent and remained for some time solitary in his native town, supporting himself through private tutoring.
In 1879 Chekhov entered the Moscow University Medical School. While in the school, he began to publish hundreds of comic brusk stories to back up himself and his female parent, sisters and brothers. His publisher at this menstruation was Nicholas Leikin, owner of the St. petersburg journal Oskolki (splinters). His subjects were silly social situations, marital problems, farcical encounters betwixt husbands, wives, mistresses, and lovers, whims of young women, of whom Chekhov had not much knowledge – the writer was shy with women fifty-fifty later on his marriage. His works appeared in Saint petersburg daily papers, Peterburskaia gazeta from 1885, and Novoe vremia from 1886.
Chekhov's showtime novel, Nenunzhaya pobeda (1882), fix in Hungary, parodied the novels of the popular Hungarian writer Mór Jókai. As a politician Jókai was as well mocked for his ideological optimism. Past 1886 Chekhov had gained a wide fame as a writer. His 2nd full-length novel, The Shooting Party, was translated into English in 1926. Agatha Christie used its characters and atmosphere in her mystery novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926).
Chekhov graduated in 1884, and skilful medicine until 1892. In 1886 Chekhov met H.S. Suvorin, who invited him to become a regular correspondent for the St. Petersburg daily Novoe vremya. His friendship with Suvorin ended in 1898 because of his objections to the anti-Dreyfus entrada conducted by paper. But during these years Chechov developed his concept of the dispassionate, non-judgmental author. He outlined his program in a letter to his blood brother Aleksandr: "ane. Absence of lengthy verbiage of political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. true descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; v. audacity and originality; flee the stereotype; half dozen. compassion."
Chekhov's outset book of stories (1886) was a success, and gradually he became a full-time writer. The author'southward refusal to bring together the ranks of social critics arose the wrath of liberal and radical intelligentsia and he was criticized for dealing with serious social and moral questions, but avoiding giving answers. However, he was defended by such leading writers as Leo Tolstoy and Nikolai Leskov. "I'chiliad not a liberal, or a conservative, or a gradualist, or a monk, or an indifferentist. I should similar to be a complimentary artist and that's all..." Chekhov said in 1888.
The failure of his play The Wood Demon (1889) and problems with his novel made Chekhov to withdraw from literature for a period. In 1890 he travelled across Siberia to remote prison island, Sakhalin. There he conducted a detailed census of some 10,000 convicts and settlers condemned to live their lives on that harsh isle. Chekhov hoped to apply the results of his enquiry for his doctoral dissertation. It is probable that difficult weather condition on the island also weakened his own physical condition. From this journey was born his famous travel book T
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