Ecrit en 1909, ce roman quasi autobiographique constitue une excellente introduction aux livres nombreux de cet écrivain américain. Méconnu et injustement oublié, on le redécouvre comme un conteur captivant et vigoureux. [SDM].
Smitten with a cultivated young woman, a sailor determines to better himself. London's semi-autobiographical novel offers a thought-provoking study of ambition, highlighted by memorable characters and a compelling narrative.
Jack London's Martin Eden was first published in 1909 and is the story of a young writer's quest for celebrity and love.
The publishing house in order to his reputation has also accepted he all sorts of harsh requests, he became the famous writer. He can't understand that these works all are already finish, they haven't been changed as well as Martin himself.
This volume argues that Jack London's Martin Eden and Henry Adams' The Education of Henry Adams are two of the first works in American literature to embody the motif of existentialism.
It is the machines of the cannery that roughen Lizzie Connolly's hands and make her, in his eyes, unfit for Martin Eden's love; Ruth's hands are soft, for she has never had to work and so is superior in culture.
Mart Eden, the hoodlum, and Mart Eden, the sailor, had been real, had been he; but Martin Eden! the famous writer, did not exist. Martin Eden, the famous writer, was a vapor that had arisen in the mobmind and by the mobmind had been ...
And where does Martin Eden and the work Martin Eden performed come in in all this? he asked himself plaintively, then arose to respond cleverly and wittily to a clever and witty toast. So it went.
Mart Eden, the hoodlum, and Mart Eden, the sailor, had been real, had been he; but Martin Eden! the famous writer, did not exist. Martin Eden, the famous writer, was a vapor that had arisen in the mob-mind and by the mob-mind had been ...
Mart Eden, the hoodlum, and Mart Eden, the sailor, had been real, had been he; but Martin Eden! the famous writer, did not exist. Martin Eden, the famous writer, was a vapor that had arisen in the mob-mind and by the mob-mind had been ...