Martin Eden - Allusions To Martin Eden in Other Works

Allusions To Martin Eden in Other Works

• In Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin, the title character asks for Martin Eden in a bookstore, describing it as "a celebrated work by the celebrated American writer Jack London", but nobody has heard of it, and they only have a copy of The Son of the Wolf. Pnin comments, "Strange! The vicissitudes of celebrity! In Russia, I remember, everybody—little children, full-grown people, doctors, advocates—everybody read and re-read him."
• A line in the Tom Waits song "Shiver Me Timbers" from the album The Heart of Saturday Night runs "I know Martin Eden's gonna be a-proud of me".
• The young Noodles reads Martin Eden in the Sergio Leone film Once Upon a Time in America.
• Kröger (Kevin Kline) lends Hélène (Sandrine Bonnaire) a copy of Martin Eden in the 2009 film Queen to Play by Caroline Bottaro.
• In Olivier Adam's 2010 novel Le Cœur régulier, the narrator lambasts her would-be author brother for his "fake Martin Eden airs" ("ses faux airs de Martin Eden").
• In It's Fine by Me by Per Petterson, Audun says that Martin Eden inspired him to be a writer.