"The boy watched how the magic of the story carried him away. (...) He gave it this title: ADVENTURE. But it wasn't about an adventure like in adventure stories, but about the biggest adventure, life, this inexorable hair-crush, which is equally terrible, both punishing and rewarding, faith-breaking and unpredictable, demanding inhuman patience, driving a person to despair by day , and at night he breaks his bones, pushes him into hunger, misery, crippling fevers, slow death, hellish terror... and in the end gives him shining glory or dark death.
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Author
Jack LondonAll Translations
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The boy watched how the magic of the story carried him away. (...) He gave it this title: ADVENTURE. But it wasn't about an adventure like in adventure stories, but about the biggest adventure, life, this inexorable hair-crush, which is equally terrible, both punishing and rewarding, faith-breaking and unpredictable, demanding inhuman patience, driving a person to despair by day , and at night he breaks his bones, pushes him into hunger, misery, crippling fevers, slow death, hellish terror... and in the end gives him shining glory or dark death.
""A fiú figyelte, hogyan ragadja magával az elbeszélés varázsa. (...) Ezt a címet adta neki: KALAND. De nem olyan kalandról volt benne szó, mint a kalandos elbeszélésekben, hanem a legnagyobb kalandról, az életről, erről a kérlelhetetlen hajcsárról, amely egyformán szörnyű, akár büntet, akár jutalmaz, hitszegő és kiszámíthatatlan, embertelen türelmet követel, nappal a kétségbeesésbe kergeti az embert, és éjjel megtöri a csontjait, éhségbe, nyomorúságba, senyvesztő lázakba, lassú halódásba, pokoli rettegésbe taszítja... s végül tündöklő dicsőséget nyújt, vagy sötét halált."