Martin Eden

基本信息

Author:Jack London

Paperback:480 pages

Publisher:Penguin UK(25 Aug 1994)

Language:English

ISBN:9780140187724

Weight:353g

Dimensions:199 x 127 x 23 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

半自传式的马丁·伊登是杰克·伦敦所创造的最具活力和独创性的人物。故事发生在旧金山，马丁·伊登是一名穷困潦倒的海员，偶然结识了上流社会的罗丝小姐，受她启发，开始执著而激进地追求着教育和文学名声的梦想。尽管处处碰壁，他仍不愿听从罗丝的安排，进她父亲的事务所，做个“有为青年”。后来他突然时来运转，以前被退回的稿件纷纷得到发表，成为当红作家。以前看不起他的亲友都争先恐后地来请他吃饭，连已和他决裂的罗丝也主动前来投怀送抱。这使他看清了这个世态炎凉的社会，对爱情所抱的美妙幻想也彻底破灭。他发现原来一切都是那么空虚，精神上的痛苦难以忍受，终于结束了自己的生命。作品虽然塑造了马丁这样一个强者，但又以他的自杀表现了对生命终极意义的否定。同时作者把马丁·伊登作为对个人主义的攻击和对野心的批评。作品已被译成六十多种文字，在全世界广为流传。

Living in Oakland at the dawn of the 20th century, Martin Eden struggles to rise far above his destitute proletarian circumstances through an intense and passionate pursuit of self-education in order to achieve a coveted place among the literary elite. The main driving force behind Martin Eden's efforts is his love for Ruth Morse. Because Eden is a rough, uneducated sailor from a working-class background, and the Morses are a bourgeois family, a union between them would be impossible until he reaches their level of wealth and perceived cultural, intellectual refinement. Just before the literary establishment discovers Eden’s talents as a writer and lavishes him with the fame and fortune that he had incessantly promised Ruth (for the last two years) would come, she loses her patience and rejects him in a wistful letter: "if only you had settled down...and attempted to make something of yourself." When the publishers and the bourgeois—the very ones who shunned him—are finally at his feet, Martin has already begrudged them and become jaded by unrequited toil and love. Instead of enjoying his success, Eden retreats into a quiet indifference, only interrupted to mentally rail against the genteelness of bourgeois society or to donate his new wealth to working class friends and family.The novel ends with Martin Eden committing suicide by drowning, a detail which undoubtedly contributed to what researcher Clarice Stasz calls the 'biographical myth' that Jack London's own death was a suicide.

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Martin Eden is assuredly one of Jack London’s greatest works. —Upton Sinclair

作者简介

杰克·伦敦（Jack London）（1876—1916年），美国20世纪著名的现实主义作家，是美国文学史上重要的作家。出生于美国加利福尼亚旧金山的一个破产农民家庭。从1900年起，他连续发表了许多中短篇小说，因其作品大都带有浓厚的社会主义色彩，因此有人认为他是宣扬社会主义的作家，但也有人认为他是表现个人主义与民众哲学的自然主义作家。他的作品不仅在美国本土广为流传，而且受到世界各国人民的欢迎。杰克·伦敦一生著述颇丰，其中极富盛名的有《马丁·伊登》、《野性的呼唤》、《雪虎》、《热爱生命》等。

John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876—November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. He is best remembered as the author of The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories To Build a Fire, An Odyssey of the North, and Love of Life. He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as The Pearls of Parlay and The Heathen, and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf . London was a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers and wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics such as his dystopian novel, The Iron Heel and his non-fiction exposé, The People of the Abyss.