Martin Eden: Original and Unabridged

ISBN-13: 9781499744484 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 310 str.

Jack London

Opis

Martin Eden, by American author "Jack London," is about a young proletarianautodidactstruggling to become a writer.

Eden represents writer' frustration with publishers by speculating that when he mails off a manuscript, a "cunning arrangement of cogs" immediately puts it in a new envelope and returns it automatically with a rejection slip.The central theme of Eden's developing artistic sensibilities places the novel in the tradition of theKunstlerroman, in which is narrated the formation and development of an artist.

Eden differs from London in that Eden rejectssocialism, attacking it as "slave morality," and relies on aNietzschean individualism. In a note toUpton Sinclair, London wrote, "One of my motifs, in this book, was an attack on individualism (in the person of the hero). I must have bungled, for not a single reviewer has discovered it.""