The Sea-Wolf (Wordsworth Classics)

The Sea-Wolf belongs in the honorific tradition of American sea fiction where the voyage motif became a means of exploring the meaning of life, as in Richard Henry Dana's Two Years Before the Mast (1840), Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838), and Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851). The dominant subject is an intellectual conflict between a ship-wrecked literary figure, Humphrey Van Weyden, and the brutal captain of a seal-hunting schooner, Wolf Larsen, who rescues Van Weyden and puts him to menial work on the schooner. The central chapters focus on the gory details of seal-hunting, and the final section shows how far Van Weyden has learned seamanship as he restores The Ghost to sailing health and returns to port with the only woman passenger, another shipwrecked figure, to plight their troth.

Lupul de mare apartine traditiei onorifice a fictiunii marine americane, unde motivul calatoriei a devenit un mijloc de explorare a sensului vietii, ca in „Two Years Before the Mast” (1840), „The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym” de Edgar Allan Poe. (1838) si Moby Dick de Herman Melville (1851). Subiectul dominant este un conflict intelectual intre o figura literara naufragiata, Humphrey Van Weyden, si capitanul brutal al unei goelete de vanatoare de foci, Wolf Larsen, care il salveaza pe Van Weyden si il pune la treaba.