21/09/2024
Anton Chekhov
19/09/2024
Lady With the Dog and Other Stories
Anton Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov practiced as a doctor throughout most of his literary career: “Medicine is my lawful wife”, he once said, “and literature is my mistress.” Chekhov had at first written stories only for financial gain, but as his artistic ambition grew, he made formal innovations which have influenced the evolution of the modern short story. His originality consists in an early use of the stream-of-consciousness technique, later adopted by James Joyce and other modernists, combined with a disavowal of the moral finality of traditional story structure. He made no apologies for the difficulties this posed to readers, insisting that the role of an artist was to ask questions, not to answer them. This is a collection of 7 of his insightful short stories about the human condition and include, beside the title story, A Doctor’s Visit; An Upheaval; Ionitch; and The Husband which are best known. (Summary by Wikipedia and Phil Chenevert) [chương_files]
17/08/2024
sala numero 6
La sala número 6 es un pequeño manicomio en el que viven encerradas cinco personas. Está dentro de un hospital decadente en una “pequeña y sucia ciudad a 200 verstas del ferrocarril”. Ante el estado calamitoso que presentan las instalaciones y el trato deplorable que reciben sus enfermos, el nuevo doctor y jefe del hospital (el señor Ragin) decide no hacer nada. ¿Para qué curarlos si se van a morir de todas formas? ¿Para qué terminar con la corrupción, el hedor y el frío si lo verdaderamente importante es concentrarse en la vida interior de la persona? Durante años protege su conciencia a base de filosofía estoica intentando adoctrinar cariñosamente a enfermos y conocidos. Al mismo tiempo abandona totalmente sus obligaciones y se regocija en una vida apacible de lectura, vodka y buena comida. Tras varios acontecimientos, el doctor Ragin recibe una bata y unas pantuflas, e ingresa como el paciente número 6 de la sala número 6. Toda cambiará a partir de este momento. La sala número 6 (publicado en 1892) es uno de los relatos de madurez más importantes de Antón Pavlovich Chejov. Según Nemirovsky, en él se desprende radicalmente de la influencia literaria de su amigo y maestro Lev Tolstoi. Se aleja de la mirada idealista y moralizante que sirva de guía a su pueblo, y retrata de una manera ácida y descarnada a la gente con la que le ha tocado vivir. Una gente a la que conoce muy bien tanto por sus avatares familiares como […]