Jack London

We can say that Jack London (1876-1916) became a writer, overcoming family rock. Not recognized by his father before birth, he visited an “oyster pirate”, a tramp, concluded, a “socialist boy”, participated in the revolutionary marches along the roads of America. Later he searched for happiness in a gold -bearing clondike, mastered writing, drove the States with lectures on socialism ... Jack London lived a truly superhuman life. Over 16 years of literary activity, he wrote 50 books, became world famous - in his novel “Martin Eden”, more than one generation of young people on both sides of the ocean excited his novel. Three great illusions of the 20th century - marriage on a reasonable basis, socialism as universal equality and the theory of a superman - Jack London materialized on himself. The “reasonable marriage” took revenge on him by the alienation of his daughters, socialism - a fabric of his “bourgeois” “house of the wolf”, and with the third illusion he broke up. Andrei Tanaseychuk many of the prevailing, romantic ideas about Jack London are reviewing, “staggers” - and this is a polemic book, but it makes it possible to make a personal opinion about the great writer