Love of Life - Jack London

Love of Life - the story of American writer Jack London. The main character (not named in the story), after being betrayed and abandoned by Comrade Bill, is sent along the Canadian tundra south through the coronation (Coronation). During his journey, the main character in the Love of Life story injures his leg, wears his clothes, loses his gun and hat, in which matches were hidden behind the lining, encounters a bear, enters wrestling match with a sick wolf.The hero’s route in the Love of Life story went from the locality north of Big Bear Lake to the confluence of the Coppermine to the Arctic Ocean, where he was picked up by a whaling ship and later flown to San Francisco. Two days before Vladimir Ilyich Lenin’s death, his spouse Nadezhda Konstantinovna I read this story to him in the evening. “Very strong thing, - stated Krupskaya. “A sick man dying of hunger walks to the pier of a large river through a snowy desert in which a human foot has not stepped.His strength weakens, he doesn’t go too, but crawls, and a wolf dying of hunger crawls next to him, and now the struggle between them, the man wins - the half-dead, half-crazy gets to the goal. Ilyich liked this story tremendously. ”

Sergei Besedin in 1960 painted the picture “Love for Life”, where V. Lenin listens to N. Krupskaya reading this story.

In 2017, the group Kipelov on the album "Stars and Crosses" released the song "White Hell" (music. V. Molchanov, words. M. Pushkin), based on the plot of the story Love of Life.