Lunar Valley: Late London

The book "The Lunar Valley" by Jack London is later the work of the writer. When he, already caressed by admission and very disappointed in the ideas that he was chasing after his youth, decided to write about what he wanted from the time of the "Game". At the same time remaining the same London: a realist, a romanticist and a socialist idealist in one bottle. We will analyze that from this mixture it turned out and whether it is worthwhile at all to take up his late works.

Main actors

The protagonist of the novel "Moon Valley" is surprisingly similar to the once created boxer Joe from the already mentioned "Game". However, if the reader has encountered this story, worthy of an early London still, perhaps he remembers that the creator mercilessly kills his character in the ring right in front of his beloved girl, whom he supposedly should marry right after the end of the fight. In this entire early author, he is peremptorily direct and, of course, a fighter in every act and thought.

Apparently, this boxer Joe was cute resurrected in the novel "Moon Valley". And clearly, with the goal of continuing its existence, as if fate still provided him with a chance to find a family, settle down, give birth to children and achieve the all-American dream of prosperity, live happily ever after and die one day with a loved one.

Accordingly, there is also his second half, who was much more fortunate than the heroine of the "Games". In general, the writer brings this couple from the working suburbs, so that, as expected, in his own style begin to experience their vicissitudes of the fate of living together in the unfriendly conditions of bourgeois America.

Late London

And here the frills of a new, late London begin. The protagonist somehow too soon ceases to fight for a just cause, his youthful maximalism suddenly disappears somewhere. A month of jail for him and the lack of money for her are enough for her, so that the steadfast character suddenly becomes a mess. He no longer wants to struggle, but give quiet domestic happiness somewhere away from the city bustle. So the reader gets an interesting epic of road adventures of a couple of pilgrims, united by a common desire to find the promised land.

Jack London is a great storyteller. The novel "Moon Valley" turned out to be extremely interesting from the point of view of the everyday life of agricultural America. His personal family idyll clearly migrated to the pages of this, undoubtedly, a talented work. But the feeling that London is not the same, clearly pursues, disappointing so accustomed to him the reader. He completely forgot his idealistic calls for a struggle for a socialist society. Now its purpose is a strong farm, in which everything is correctly arranged.

By the way, "Lunar Valley" is a novel written in 1913, when the author already had a difficult experience of running his own economy, he had to cover his management debts by writing a writer's work. However, this idea of modern farming, reasonable and incredibly profitable, clearly prevails in the work.

Socialist background

Of course, there is also an inveterate socialist here. But the manifestations of these ideas are completely different, in many respects different from early London. Critics often combine the novel "Moon Valley" with another of his famous works - "The Iron Heel", which is a vivid example of anti-utopia. But between these novels there is a fundamental difference. If in the second the heroes continue to fight for the glorious socialist future, then in the first they do not think about it, they just simply and harmoniously live with the idea of communism in family relations.

Indeed, the idyll is simply classical. Their family is a miniature communist paradise. Here a man pays his woman for services, and she gives him her property for rent, they agree in the common opinion that common property is the limit of perfection. So London wrote a beautiful fairy tale, which I want to believe in, but that's just not very good.

Conclusion

In the Soviet Union, the most printed was, as you know, Hans Christian Andersen. And on the second place in this list, oddly enough, Jack London. "Lunar Valley" is a vivid example of the creativity of this remarkable writer in the late period. He was loved by the whole Union for sincerity and naive frankness. Reading it is a pleasure, and this book is clearly no exception.