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Аннотация
In den 20er Jahren reist die amerikanische Oberschicht gerne durch Europa, lässt mal hier mal dort für einige Zeit nieder. Zu diesen Rastlosen gehören auch der Psychiater Dick und seine Frau Nicole, die einst seine Patientin war. Nicole ist noch nicht ganz geheilt. Das wird in der Ehe spürbar. Die Vermischung der Rollen des Ehepartners und des Patienten überfordert beide. Bei ihrem Südfrankreichaufenthalt gerät die Ehe immer tiefer in die Krise. F. Scott Fitzgerald ist der große Chronist des Jazz Age und der Goldenen Zwanziger in den USA. Mit «Zärtlich ist die Nacht» ist ihm ein Meisterwerk gelungen, das wie kein zweites die Oberflächlichkeit und Leere hinter dem vordergründig rauschhaften Lebensstil der amerikanischen Oberschicht demaskiert. Dieses E-Book enthält eine vollständige deutsche Ausgabe des Romans «Zärtlich ist die Nacht» (Originaltitel: «Tender is the night») von F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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En una carta a Harold Ober, su editor, Francis Scott Fitzgerald le explicaba que concebía sus relatos como si fueran novelas. No se refería a la extensión naturalmente, ni a la complejidad de la trama, sino a las emociones que debían provocar, a su capacidad de conmover a los lectores. Esta explicación quizás encierra la clave de su modo de concebir relatos. Los mejores de ellos, que son muchos, podrían haber sido novelas. Por la hondura de los personajes, por el absoluto dominio sobre la historia que se está narrando, por la capacidad de hacer visible aquello que no se narra y que el lector descubre. La insistencia en las emociones recorre toda su obra, marcada por una serie de temas en los que probablemente sea el maestro indiscutido: las ambiciones de la juventud, el miedo al fracaso, las diversas y dolorosas maneras de desperdiciar una vida, el desamor, la soledad, lo irrecuperable. No hay que olvidar que uno de sus textos más célebres se titula Bancarrota emocional. Como tantos otros novelistas, Fitzgerald durante largo tiempo fue menospreciado como escritor de cuentos. El tiempo corrigió este desdén. Algunos de sus relatos son obras maestras y están entre lo mejor de la literatura norteamericana del siglo XX. Baste mencionar Babilonia revisitada, El diamante tan grande como el Ritz o El extraño caso de Benjamin Button. Esta antología preparada por Carlos Gamerro es una muestra reiterada de ese talento, de una voz distintiva. La prosa clara e iluminadora de Fitzgerald sorprende y emociona igual hoy que en su tiempo. Aquello en lo que tanto trabajó constituye su triunfo póstumo.
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Libro formado por nueve relatos de intenso trasfondo autobiográfico, inmediatamente posterior a «El gran Gatsby». Al mundo dinámico de los jóvenes emprendedores que forman la clase de los nuevos ricos se opone el pequeño mundo antiguo de las grandes fortunas, de costumbres arraigadas y decadentes, de prejuicios y frivolidad. En el inevitable choque entre la fascinación por el pedigrí social y el trabajo productivo aparecen estos jóvenes tristes, estos niños ricos propensos a la fragilidad, los amores traicionados, el desequilibrio psíquico, el vacío existencial. La carga generacional y emocional de todos los jóvenes rendidos, vencidos. Bellos e inútiles, se dejan llevar hacia una tristeza sin salida. El texto, a modo de prólogo, «Cómo vivir con 36.000$ al año», nos introduce en el mundo privado de las dificultades económicas de los Fitzgerald; muy similar al de los personajes de estas encantadoras, cómicas y clarividentes historias.
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In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write «something new–something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned.» That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's–and his country's–most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. «Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter–tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning–» Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.
It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means–and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. «Her voice is full of money,» Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem.
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"Now we have an American masterpiece in its final form: the original crystal has shaped itself into the true diamond. This is the novel as Fitzgerald wished it to be, and so it is what we have dreamed of, sleeping and waking." – James Dickey
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The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published on April 10, 1925, it is set on Long Island's North Shore and in New York City during the summer of 1922.
The novel takes place following the First World War. American society enjoyed prosperity during the «roaring» 1920s as the economy soared. At the same time, Prohibition, the ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol as mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment, made millionaires out of bootleggers. After its republishing in 1945 and 1953, it quickly found a wide readership and is today widely regarded as a paragon of the Great American Novel, and a literary classic. The Great Gatsby has become a standard text in high school and university courses on American literature in countries around the world, and is ranked second in the Modern Library's lists of the 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century.
–Wikipedia
It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means–and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. «Her voice is full of money,» Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem.
* * *
"Now we have an American masterpiece in its final form: the original crystal has shaped itself into the true diamond. This is the novel as Fitzgerald wished it to be, and so it is what we have dreamed of, sleeping and waking." – James Dickey
* * *
The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published on April 10, 1925, it is set on Long Island's North Shore and in New York City during the summer of 1922.
The novel takes place following the First World War. American society enjoyed prosperity during the «roaring» 1920s as the economy soared. At the same time, Prohibition, the ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol as mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment, made millionaires out of bootleggers. After its republishing in 1945 and 1953, it quickly found a wide readership and is today widely regarded as a paragon of the Great American Novel, and a literary classic. The Great Gatsby has become a standard text in high school and university courses on American literature in countries around the world, and is ranked second in the Modern Library's lists of the 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century.
–Wikipedia