La ley de la vida y otros cuentos

by Jack London

120 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1981

About the author

John Griffith Chaney, better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.

London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of animal rights, workers’ rights and socialism. London wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam.

His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in Alaska and the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen".

Reviews

[Bártulos - Jose Fontecha · Rating 5 out of 5]

Un pequeño cuento que nos enseña la naturalidad con que hay que ver la muerte, tan natural como la vida. Cómo cuando se acaba tu vida, quedas atrás, te dejan atrás, la vida sigue.

[M. F. Schiavi · Rating 5 out of 5]

"_Me voy. Te parece bien? _Si. Soy como una hoja del último invierno, apenas sujeta a la rama. Al primer soplo me desprenderé. Mi voz es ya como la de una vieja. Mis ojos ya no ven el camino abierto a mis pies, y mis pies son pesados. Estoy cansado. Me parece bien".

Este fascinante relato describe el ciclo de la vida desde la óptica particular de una tribu nómada, tan natural para ellos, cómo inclemente para nosotros.