KRALJ ALKOHOL

by Jack London

Knjiga “Kralj alkohol” je u originalu objavljena pod imenom “Dzon Barlikom” 1913. godine. Ime Dzon Barlikom je sinonim za alkohol, a potice iz engleske narodne pesme iz XVII veka. U ovorm autobiografskom romanu, Dzek London je izneo mnogo intimnih podataka koji su do tada bili nepoznati. U njemu je opisao istoriju jednog pijanice od svog prvog gutljaja pa sve do potpunog robovanja alkoholu. Da bi sto bolje opisao svoju borbu sa alkoholom, Dzek London personalizuje alkohol u vidu lika Dzona Barlikoma. pridajuci mu osobine lukavosti, podmuklosti i moci ubedjivanja. Sa tom imaginarnom licnoscu pisac vodi borbu na zivot i smrt i pokazuje da se ne boji Dzona Barlikoma. vec mu prkosi i nastoji da ga u toj borbi pobedi. Dzek London je napravio Dzona Barlikoma predstavnikom "bele logike". ciji je glavni znacaj u tome sto menja i izvrce ustaljene vrednosti, sto nagoni coveka da sumnja u ono sto je istinito i da veruje u ono sto je nemoguce. Ono sto je veoma bitno za ovaj roman, jeste da je Dzek London postavio sebi za cilj da prikaze ne samo psihologiju i filozofiju pijanice. nego je posao mnogo dalje, usavsi u samu filozofiju pijanstva, sa svim stetnim i kobnim posledicama kako za pojedinca, tako i za celokupno drustvo.

Hardcover

Published January 1, 2014

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".