‘If you have not already done so, make a note of the name, F. Scott Fitzgerald.’ So begins the Chicago Tribune’s review of This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald’s debut novel. Its publication announced the arrival of an eminent new American writer and established him as the spokesperson for his generation. The story follows the life of Amory Blaine from a constrained childhood as the only offspring of a neurotic, restless, well-off widow, through his student years, the First World War, disappointment in love, and impoverishment to a provisional epiphany. This vibrant portrait of a young character coming to terms with the world as it is and his own place in it shimmers with candor, energy, and flashes of genius.
Includes a biographical timeline and the full text of the career-launching reviews that appeared in The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The New Republic, The Evening Post, and The Evening World.
Table des matières
Contents
Book One
Chapter 1: Anthony Patch
Chapter 2: Portrait of a Siren
Chapter 3 : The Connoisseur of Kisses
Book Two
Chapter 1: The Radiant Hour
Chapter 2: Symposium
Chapter 3: The Broken Lute
Book Three
Chapter 1: A Matter of Civilization
Chapter 2: A Matter of Aesthetics
Chapter 3: No Matter!
Zelda’s Review
Biographical Timeline
A propos de l’auteur
Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920 to instant acclaim. Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda embodied the spirit of the Jazz Age-the glamour and grit of which Fitzgerald captured in stories and novels that powerfully resonate today, including The Beautiful and Damned and Tender Is the Night. Haunted by alcoholism, marital problems, and Zelda’s illness, Fitzgerald took his immense literary talents to the dream factories of Hollywood where he died in 1940 while working on his unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon.
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