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Martin Eden
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It is a classical philosophical tragedy: unrecognized genius vs bourgeois society, but the main character is unsympathetical. Although his assumptions about society is hard to deny, his attitude toward other people is pretentious and extremely rude. He values his own principals more than anything else and even in love and charity he proclaims an individualism and Nietzschean ideas of power.
In general, the book is a nice description of America's society at the beginning of the twentieth century and has deep phycological research of human nature.
In general, the book is a nice description of America's society at the beginning of the twentieth century and has deep phycological research of human nature.
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May 15, 2022 03:38PM
Lena: 60 reviews is rather a lot for no one to have made a comment on your review of Jack London's novel, Martin Eden, a rather interesting book that is rather different from his best-known stories. One point is that there are many authors who are like the Martin Eden character--in wanting to forge a new path in literature, they set themselves apart from much of the rest of society. London was a self-educated fellow from a poor background & he found much of "high society" rather shallow. In striving for greater equality, the author did in fact create a character who is difficult to like. In spite of that, I found the character & the book very interesting. Bill
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