Like 'The Sea-Wolf', 'Martin Eden' is a novel where Jack London explores the conflict between socialism and Nietzschean individualism. It is also a Bildungsroman, exploring the growth of the central character, his rise from a rough, uneducated background and his struggle to become an artist.
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Like 'The Sea-Wolf', 'Martin Eden' is a novel where Jack London explores the conflict between socialism and Nietzschean individualism. It is also a Bildungsroman, exploring the growth of the central character, his rise from a rough, uneducated background and his struggle to become an artist.
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Among my friend it's very common to listen Pink Floyd's "Another brick in the wall" after reading Martin Eden. The book is very succesful for drawing a concrete portrait of a highly-bourgeoisly-educated person as Ruth Morse, whom Martin felt in love with. On the other hand there is Martin Eden, a sailor who educates himself especially in and soon becomes an author. The main theme is the struggle of initially uneducated sailor Martin's efforts to be with Ruth, member of a bourgeois family. By the time he self-teaches and develops a world view combining Nietzsche-oriented individualism and social darwinism. There are interesting dialogues in the book that clearly indicates the limits of Ruth's thinking, based on modern and blindly bourgeois education. Whereas, Martin can simply criticize anything. The book ends tragically. However, it is a great book to read hence see the potential of human ability.
