CREATIVITY AND CREATIVE PERSONALITY IN JACK LONDON’S UNDERSTANDING

Abstract

The article analyzes the views of Jack London on the creativity and the creative personality from the point of view of understanding purposes and forms of creative process, and also in connection with the problem of the personal development of a person. The basic content of the study consists of the analysis of articles and some artistic works of the writer, which makes it possible to reveal the author’s position. As a result of the study, the conclusions were made about the writer’s understanding of the important role of literature in the life of society, about the significance of this problem in connection with the understanding of the special features of the artistic world of London. The author presented a new view on the creative laboratory of the writer, actualized an issue of the new reading of the American classical literature.