Jack London

The Sea-Wolf

A North Pacific Maritime Thriller of Shipwreck, Survival, and Brutal Command. Sprachen: Englisch. 22,9 cm / 15,2 cm / 1,2 cm ( B/H/T )
EAN 9788028341930
10,20 €
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172 Seiten
November 2023
Sharp Ink

The Sea-Wolf is Jack London's bracing 1904 maritime novel, a psychological adventure in which the refined literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden is rescued from shipwreck only to be imprisoned aboard the sealing schooner Ghost under the command of Wolf Larsen. Combining naturalist determinism, Nietzschean philosophy, and the conventions of sea romance, London stages a contest between intellect, brutality, moral idealism, and survival. Its taut prose, physical immediacy, and harsh Pacific setting place it among the great American novels of ordeal. London's own biography deeply informs the book's authority. Born into poverty, he worked as a sailor, oyster pirate, factory laborer, and Klondike prospector before becoming a celebrated writer. His voyage on a sealing ship in the North Pacific furnished the novel's material detail, while his reading in Darwin, Spencer, Marx, and Nietzsche shaped its ideological conflicts. Wolf Larsen, in particular, embodies London's fascination with power, materialism, and the limits of individual will. Readers seeking more than adventure will find The Sea-Wolf intellectually provocative and dramatically compelling. It is recommended for those interested in American naturalism, maritime fiction, and novels that test civilization against elemental violence.

Jack London (1876-1916) war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und Journalist. Er erlangte vor allem Bekanntheit durch seine Abenteuerromane Ruf der Wildnis und Wolfsblut sowie durch den mehrfach verfilmten Abenteuerroman Der Seewolf und den autobiographisch beeinflussten Roman Martin Eden. Diese Werke geben gleichzeitig eine Übersicht über die geographischen Räume, die er kannte: den arktischen Norden Nordamerikas (Klondike) zur Zeit des Goldrausches, Kalifornien und den Pazifik bzw. die Seefahrt auf diesem Ozean.

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