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4.0
The book lived the extreme adventures narrated by the American writer Jack London (1876-1916), mainly in his great forty years of existence.
An alcoholic and a quarrelsome teenager, London was a pirate in the California rivers and travelled the United States and Canada by hitchhiking on trains and being arrested. In addition, he was a labourer, miner and socialist militant, and a sailor and seal hunter in the Pacific Ocean.
He ran for gold in the Alaskan snow at the turn of the century. All described in about fifty books he wrote, including novels, biographies, short stories, and science fiction. In the works, he mixed his life with fantasy and vice versa.
Based mainly on the vast correspondence, London tries to give a different course to the writer's life. Nevertheless, his wandering and different trajectory have elevated him to a myth of American literature.
Reading this book, we discover the secret behind the vast production of London in a short time of work, amid all the activity, drugs and drunkenness. No matter what, Jack wrote a thousand words a day.
Also present are London's contradictions, influenced by Nietzsche, who wrote pamphlets that slipped into racism and eugenics. And even the accusations of plagiarism he suffered.
An alcoholic and a quarrelsome teenager, London was a pirate in the California rivers and travelled the United States and Canada by hitchhiking on trains and being arrested. In addition, he was a labourer, miner and socialist militant, and a sailor and seal hunter in the Pacific Ocean.
He ran for gold in the Alaskan snow at the turn of the century. All described in about fifty books he wrote, including novels, biographies, short stories, and science fiction. In the works, he mixed his life with fantasy and vice versa.
Based mainly on the vast correspondence, London tries to give a different course to the writer's life. Nevertheless, his wandering and different trajectory have elevated him to a myth of American literature.
Reading this book, we discover the secret behind the vast production of London in a short time of work, amid all the activity, drugs and drunkenness. No matter what, Jack wrote a thousand words a day.
Also present are London's contradictions, influenced by Nietzsche, who wrote pamphlets that slipped into racism and eugenics. And even the accusations of plagiarism he suffered.
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