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Martin Eden: Original and Unabridged
Paperback
Series: Translate House Classics
Classic FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781499744484
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Aug 26 2014
Pages: 310
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Martin Eden, by American author Jack London, is about a young proletarian autodidact struggling 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 the Künstlerroman, in which is narrated the formation and development of an artist.
Eden differs from London in that Eden rejects socialism, attacking it as slave morality, and relies on a Nietzschean individualism. In a note to Upton 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.
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