Jack London Biography
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(1876-1916)
Jack London (John Griffith London) was born in San Francisco, California (United States)
United), on January 12, 1876. He was the illegitimate son of an astrologer named William Henry.
Chaney and Flora Wellman, a music teacher from a good family from
Ohio was also dedicated to the world of the occult, more specifically, to spiritualism.
His father abandoned his offspring and his lover. His mother fell ill, little Jack grew up.
under the care of a slave named Virginia Prentiss. Flora married John London in
September 1876. Ten years later, the family moved to Oakland. In 1893, Jack
(who adopted the surname of her adoptive father) saw her first texts published in the
newspaper 'San Francisco Call'. London's writings contain a realistic portrait of
environments and characters, in addition to a latent concern for the human being. Its
political ideology, influenced by his precarious experiences as a worker and sailor, is
leaned towards socialism.
His education was self-taught, voraciously reading all kinds of works, from Friedrich
Nietzsche,Gustave Flaubert oWashington Irving until Charles Darwin,Rudyard
KiplingOh Karl Marx. With a romantic spirit, Jack London soon began his life of travel.
and bohemia, becoming a sailor, leaving for Alaska to try to find gold,
wandering the streets of London and working as a war correspondent.
married twice, first in 1900 to Bess Madern and second in 1905 to
Charmian Kittredge. Other important women in her life were Mabel Applegrath and
Anna Strunsky. His literary work, narrated with lightness and a direct style, is a
extension of its own adventurous existence and its vital thoughts. The titles
the most important of his bibliography are "The Underdogs" (1903),The Call of the Wild
1903, "El lobo de mar" (1904), "Colmillo blanco" (1907), "Luz del día", "Martín Edén"
(1909) and the autobiographical "John Barleycorn" (1913). His social and ideological stances
they were inspired by titles such as 'The People of the Abyss' (1903), 'Class War' (1905) or 'The
iron heel" (1908). One of his short story booksThe Idolatervolume with
stories set in the South Seas. He died of a morphine overdose and
atropine in Glen Ellen, California, on November 22, 1916. He was 40 years old.
LITERARY TRAJECTORY
Almost since his adolescence, Jack London (1876-1916) had to fight an unrelenting
struggle for survival, which led him to shout newspapers on the corners in the harsh
work of the seal hunters or the gold seekers of the Klondike; and also, in
occasions, to wandering and jail until success as a writer provided him
fame and money. The look into his own past made him search in evolutionism,
utopian socialism and revolutionary theories the answer to your questions about
injustice, inequality, and violence. The tales of the great American storyteller
thus combine the rhythm of the adventure genre with settings, characters, and plots
extracted of the memories of his own life.
THE WHITE SILENCE brings together an excellent sample of all his work: the conflicts and the
feelings of the protagonists in these stories set in the icy north or in
the fabulous Southern Seas, geographic landmarks of a good part of their stories,
they transcend, however, the particularity of a specific time and place to
to rise to the ultimate keys of the human condition.
WORKS:
Love for life
A Nordic Odyssey
The Pagan
"Law of life".
The deceived
The fire of the bonfire.
For a steak.