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A review by warmdayswillnevercease
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
3.5
It's a dog eat dog world. Literally.
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A book from a dog's perspective.
London’s adaptive writing style was jarring and, at times, felt a little inconsistent and incoherent. But when I started to read it for the allegory it was, it made a bit more sense. I enjoyed how he used different styles of prose to represent the intrusion of humanity into the wilderness, using a simple style to represent Buck who is evolving and returning to nature while utilising a more verbose, almost artificial style when referring to particular human characters.
I didn't enjoy the ending. It was too Nietzschean for me as Buck becomes some sort of überhund who reverts back to his “natural” wild state. There was a strong romanticisation of nature and returning to the wilderness and living off the land while also an incredibly uncomfortable exoticisation and dehumanisation of Native American people.
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A book from a dog's perspective.
London’s adaptive writing style was jarring and, at times, felt a little inconsistent and incoherent. But when I started to read it for the allegory it was, it made a bit more sense. I enjoyed how he used different styles of prose to represent the intrusion of humanity into the wilderness, using a simple style to represent Buck who is evolving and returning to nature while utilising a more verbose, almost artificial style when referring to particular human characters.
I didn't enjoy the ending. It was too Nietzschean for me as Buck becomes some sort of überhund who reverts back to his “natural” wild state. There was a strong romanticisation of nature and returning to the wilderness and living off the land while also an incredibly uncomfortable exoticisation and dehumanisation of Native American people.