Famous Works Translation with Illustrations -- Here Comes the Silent Dawn...

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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: Born into poverty, sailor Martin Eden meets the Ruth family by chance. Ruth is extraordinarily beautiful, captivating him, and he becomes determined to study hard to become worthy of her in every way. Ruth is also drawn to his strong physique and abundant energy, and she falls for him unconsciously. Martin aspires to be a writer and begins a tough career in writing, but none of his manuscripts are accepted, and his life is impoverished. Ruth also cuts off contact with him. When he is disheartened and stops working hard on writing, he unexpectedly gets lucky—a piece of his work is published in a major magazine, and other manuscripts he has been rejected countless times also become highly popular. He achieves fame, and Ruth finds him and throws herself into his arms. However, Martin completely loses faith in this materialistic society. While sailing at sea, he quietly climbs onto the porthole and throws himself into the embrace of the sea. Of course, the work that most vividly reflects both the positive and negative aspects of his creative philosophy is his masterpiece—published in 1909, the novel Martin Eden. In this autobiographical novel, Jack London poured his heart into it, writing about how he struggled through poverty under the disdain of the mediocre bourgeoisie while studying and writing. He also thoroughly elaborates on his social views, which are a mix of Marxist class consciousness, Spencer's Social Darwinism, and Nietzsche's "superman" theory. Martin Eden is a sailor on an ocean-going ship. By chance, he meets the Ruth family and falls deeply in love with the liberal arts student, seeing her as his ideal lover. To match her, he studies diligently, arming himself with cultural knowledge, especially various philosophical ideas. He believes his experiences will interest people, and his views urgently need to be expressed to them, so he seriously studies and practices writing. But his attempts fail one after another, and his life becomes desperate. Despite often being hungry to the point of fainting and even pawning his coat, he still ignores everything to study and write. Although his sister, landlord, and working-class friends like and sympathize with him, they don't understand him. Meanwhile, the upper-class gentlemen and ladies mock and ridicule him, but he presses forward,ing his own path. In terms of this spirit of hard struggle and self-reliance, it is positive.