Смерть Джека Лондона
Всегда был уверен, что он покончил с собой, ан нет.
Death
Grave of Jack and Charmian LondonMany older sources describe his death as a suicide, and some still do.[42] However, this appears to be at best a rumor, or speculation based on incidents in his fiction writings. His death certificate [43] gives the cause as uremia, following acute renal colic, a type of pain often described as "the worst pain [...] ever experienced"[44], commonly caused by kidney stones. Uremia is also known as uremic poisoning. He died November 22, 1916, in a sleeping porch in a cottage on his ranch.[45] He was in extreme pain and taking morphine, and it is possible that a morphine overdose, accidental or deliberate, may have contributed. Clarice Stasz, in a capsule biography, writes "Following London's death, for a number of reasons a biographical myth developed in which he has been portrayed as an alcoholic womanizer who committed suicide. Recent scholarship based upon firsthand documents challenges this caricature."[46]
Because brutality, murder, and suicide feature in so many of London's stories, many suspected his death was a suicide. In his autobiographical novel Martin Eden, the protagonist commits suicide by drowning. In his autobiographical memoir John Barleycorn, he claims, as a youth, having drunkenly stumbled overboard into the San Francisco Bay, "some maundering fancy of going out with the tide suddenly obsessed me", and drifted for hours intending to drown himself, nearly succeeding before sobering up and being rescued by fishermen. An even closer parallel occurs in the dénouement of The Little Lady of the Big House, in which the heroine, confronted by the pain of a mortal and untreatable gunshot wound, undergoes a physician-assisted suicide by means of morphine. These accounts in his writings probably contributed to the "biographical myth".
Помню, на меня очень сильное впечатление произвёл "Мартин Иден".
Недавно скачал этот фильм, надо будет посмотреть.
Death
Grave of Jack and Charmian LondonMany older sources describe his death as a suicide, and some still do.[42] However, this appears to be at best a rumor, or speculation based on incidents in his fiction writings. His death certificate [43] gives the cause as uremia, following acute renal colic, a type of pain often described as "the worst pain [...] ever experienced"[44], commonly caused by kidney stones. Uremia is also known as uremic poisoning. He died November 22, 1916, in a sleeping porch in a cottage on his ranch.[45] He was in extreme pain and taking morphine, and it is possible that a morphine overdose, accidental or deliberate, may have contributed. Clarice Stasz, in a capsule biography, writes "Following London's death, for a number of reasons a biographical myth developed in which he has been portrayed as an alcoholic womanizer who committed suicide. Recent scholarship based upon firsthand documents challenges this caricature."[46]
Because brutality, murder, and suicide feature in so many of London's stories, many suspected his death was a suicide. In his autobiographical novel Martin Eden, the protagonist commits suicide by drowning. In his autobiographical memoir John Barleycorn, he claims, as a youth, having drunkenly stumbled overboard into the San Francisco Bay, "some maundering fancy of going out with the tide suddenly obsessed me", and drifted for hours intending to drown himself, nearly succeeding before sobering up and being rescued by fishermen. An even closer parallel occurs in the dénouement of The Little Lady of the Big House, in which the heroine, confronted by the pain of a mortal and untreatable gunshot wound, undergoes a physician-assisted suicide by means of morphine. These accounts in his writings probably contributed to the "biographical myth".
Помню, на меня очень сильное впечатление произвёл "Мартин Иден".
Недавно скачал этот фильм, надо будет посмотреть.