美国现实主义代表作家杰克·伦敦拥有充满传奇色彩的一生：早年生活贫寒、四处流浪闯荡，经历了短暂求学，而后在写作事业上取得巨大成功，却在四十岁时英年早逝。早年在阿拉斯加淘金的经历，使他对自然和生命产生了深刻的感悟，为其日后的创作奠定了基础。今天我们为大家推荐的就是杰克·伦敦的代表作《野性的呼唤》，让我们同猎犬巴克一起，踏上回归自然的旅程。

作品简介

《野性的呼唤》是美国作家杰克·伦敦创作的中篇小说，首次出版于1903年。该作讲述了从小养尊处优的家犬巴克被拐卖到原始荒野当雪橇犬。恶劣的生存环境和残酷的现实激发了巴克向大自然回归的本能和意识。最终，当恩主约翰·桑顿遇害，巴克彻底下定决心，回归荒野。小说笔锋粗犷，充满冒险与哲理，是一部脍炙人口的经典作品。

 

作者简介

杰克·伦敦（Jack London，1876-1916），原名约翰·格里菲斯·伦敦，美国现实主义作家。出生于旧金山一个破产农民家庭，因家境贫困，自幼开始四处谋生，到各地流浪，还曾加入淘金者行列到阿拉斯加闯荡。早年的坎坷经历为他的写作提供了丰富的灵感源泉，令他创作出一系列经典作品。代表作有《野性的呼唤》《白牙》《马丁·伊登》等。

 

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His development (or retrogression) was rapid. His muscles became hard as iron, and he grew callous to all ordinary pain. He achieved an internal as well as external economy. He could eat anything, no matter how loathsome or indigestible; and, once eaten, the juices of his stomach extracted the last least particle of nutriment; and his blood carried it to the farthest reaches of his body, building it into the toughest and stoutest of tissues. Sight and scent became remarkably keen, while his hearing developed such acuteness that in his sleep he heard the faintest sound and knew whether it heralded peace or peril. He learned to bite the ice out with his teeth when it collected between his toes; and when he was thirsty and there was a thick scum of ice over the water hole, he would break it by rearing and striking it with stiff fore legs. His most conspicuous trait was an ability to scent the wind and forecast it a night in advance. No matter how breathless the air when he dug his nest by tree or bank, the wind that later blew inevitably found him to leeward, sheltered and snug.

And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him. In vague ways he remembered back to the youth of the breed, to the time the wild dogs ranged in packs through the primeval forest and killed their meat as they ran it down. It was no task for him to learn to fight with cut and slash and the quick wolf snap. In this manner had fought forgotten ancestors. They quickened the old life within him, and the old tricks which they had stamped into the heredity of the breed were his tricks. They came to him without effort or discovery, as though they had been his always. And when, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolflike, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries and through him. And his cadences were their cadences, the cadences which voiced their woe and what to them was the meaning of the stillness, and the cold, and dark.

本书将杰克·伦敦创作思想的流变过程作为一个有机整体，以其最具代表性的“北疆小说”和“南海小说”为研究对象，探究作家创作思想形成的渊源，厘清其连续发展的轨迹，阐释作家如何在纷繁复杂的哲学思想以及帝国话语和政治意识的影响下完成对美国海外殖民叙事的历史书写；通过对19世纪末20世纪初美国社会政治、经济、文化等问题的艺术再现，探究国家意识形态、个人哲学思想与文学文本之间的关系，揭示伦敦如何把文学的虚构性和历史的真实性并置来反映文学作品背后所隐藏的复杂社会关系、权利冲突和种族矛盾，同时分析作家的叙事策略及意义。

London’s first-hand engagement with the world -- the process of becoming and maintaining himself as a citizen of the world -- helps define the kind of writing he produced. It is insufficient now to call him a naturalist writer if his principal concern was to reflect and represent, not the usual fare of violence and natural forces that we as literary theorists have used to periodize London’s work, but rather something larger, more indeterminant, contemporary. The purpose of this handbook is to honor him as a representative American writer of the age as he understood it.

 

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