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Ebook con un sumario dinámico y detallado:Último besoLa tarde de un escritorUno de mis más viejos amigosVolver a BabiloniaFrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald (Saint Paul, 1896 - Hollywood, California, 1940) fue un novelista estadounidense de la "epoca del jazz".Su obra es el reflejo, desde una elevada optica literaria, de los problemas de la juventud de su pais en los años que siguieron a la Primera Guerra Mundial. En sus novelas expresa el desencanto de los privilegiados jovenes de su generacion que arrastraban su lasitud entre el jazz y la ginebra (A este lado del paraiso, 1920), en Europa en la Costa Azul (Suave es la noche, 1934), o en el fascinante decorado de las ciudades estadounidenses (El gran Gatsby, 1925).Su extraordinaria Suave es la noche narra el ascenso y caida de Dick Diver, un joven psicoanalista, condicionado por Nicole, su mujer y su paciente. El eco doloroso de la hospitalizacion de su propia mujer, Zelda, diagnosticada esquizofrenica en 1932, es manifiesto. Este libro define el tono mas denso y sombrio de su obra, perceptible en muchos escritos autobiograficos finales.

Tra tutte le opere di Fitzgerald, questa e probabilmente la piu ambiziosa, sofferta e tormentata. Gli ci vollero infatti nove anni per completare questo romanzo, del quale non fu completamente soddisfatto nemmeno dopo la sua pubblicazione e continuo a riprenderlo e modificarlo fino a lasciare sei versioni complessive dellopera, delle quali tre pubblicate e le restanti inedite. Come spesso succede nei suoi lavori, anche Tenera e la notte e ricco di elementi autobiografici a cominciare dallattivita di Dick Diver, il protagonista, che lascia lattivita di psicologo dopo aver sposato una sua ricca paziente per vivere di rendita della sua fortuna. Ambientato tra la Costa Azzurra e la Parigi degli anni Venti, dove Fitzgerald e molti altri scrittori americani si erano trasferiti per scrivere e vivere le atmosfere inimitabili della Francia, i personaggi del libro finiranno per disintegrarsi in una sorta di catena autodistruttiva che puo essere considerata attualissima anche ai giorni nostri. I temi trattati, dal fascino del denaro al vizio dello spreco alla vacuita della felicita, si addicono perfettamente alla nostra epoca consumistica, rendendo queste pagine suggestive e ricche di un fascino che e ora luminoso e ora spettrale. Con la prosa tipica di un maestro della letteratura americana, un romanzo da riscoprire e gustare come un bicchiere di prosecco per introdurre una cena ricercata. Allinterno - come in tutti i volumi Fermento - gli "Indicatori" per consentire al lettore un agevole viaggio dentro il libro.

Navona rescata esta obra, descatalogada, en la única edición en castellano autorizada por los herederos del autor. La edición cuenta con un esclarecedor prólogo de Edmun Wilson y con numerosas notas y riguroso epilogo de la traductora Dolors Ortega, en el que se explica el proceso de traduccion contrastando las versiones de Wilson (1941 y de Bruccoli (1993).

"Francis Scott Fitzgerald es uno de los escritores norteamericanos más importantes del siglo XX, gracias a obras como «El gran Gatsby», «A este lado del paraíso» o «Hermosos y malditos». Basil Duke

Jay Gatsby es un hombre muy popular. No sólo por su fortuna, sino también por las grandes fiestas que organiza en su lujosa residencia de Long Island, a las que concurre lo más granado de la sociedad neoyorquina. Pero sobre su persona corre todo tipo de rumores. Nadie sabe realmente quien es, a que se dedica ni cual es el origen de la fortuna de este misterioso personaje que pasa gran parte del tiempo en su jardin mirando al atardecer la luz del otro lado de la bahia. Y es que ni siquiera un hombre como el es capaz de recuperar el pasado. "El gran Gatsby" es una de las novelas mas importantes de la historia de la literatura.Jay Gatsby es un hombre muy popular. No sólo por su fortuna, sino también por las grandes fiestas que organiza en su lujosa residencia de Long Island, a las que concurre lo más granado de la sociedad neoyorquina. Pero sobre su persona corre todo tipo de rumores. Nadie sabe realmente quien es, a que se dedica ni cual es el origen de la fortuna de este misterioso personaje que pasa gran parte del tiempo en su jardin mirando al atardecer la luz del otro lado de la bahia. Y es que ni siquiera un hombre como el es capaz de recuperar el pasado. "El gran Gatsby" es una de las novelas mas importantes de la historia de la literatura.

Tres obras de Francis Scott Fitzgerald que non debe perderse (todas con indice activo):- EL GRAN GATSBY- SUAVE ES LA NOCHE- A ESTE LADO DEL PARAISO

“Hermosos y malditos” es un brillante y ácido retrato de la juventud americana de la alta sociedad durante la “edad del jazz”. En una atmósfera de vertiginosa y atolondrada prosperidad, consecuencia

"Winter Dreams"descriu lascens social dun jove i, sobretot, les desafeccions de lamor, tema recurrent en lobra de Fitzgerald. A Bernice Bobs her Hair, una jove ingenua intenta fer tot el possible per sentir-se socialment acceptada."Bob haircut"o"a la garçonne", era el tall de cabell propi de les escandaloses vampiresses del cinema. El bo i millor del narrador nord-america ho trobem en els relats protagonitzats per les flappers i pels sad young men, retrats fidels de les noies modernes i dels joves afligits que formaven part de la generacio del jazz que va viure entre dues guerres.

F. Scott Fitzgeralds second novel, which brilliantly satirizes a doomed and glamorous marriage, anticipated the master strokeThe Great Gatsbythat would follow, and marks a key moment in the writers career. Would-be Jazz Age aristocrats Anthony and Gloria Patch embody the corrupt high society of 1920s New York: they are beautiful, shallow, pleasure-seeking, and vain. As presumptive heirs to a large fortune, they begin their married life by living well beyond their means. Their days are marked by endless drinking, dancing, luxury, and play. But when the expected inheritance is withheld, their lives become consumed with the pursuit of wealth, and their alliance begins to fall apart. Inspired in part by Fitzgeralds own tumultuous union with his wife Zelda, hauntingly rendered and keenly observed, these characters evoke a vivid portrait of a lost world: a city steeped in vice, a society without direction, and the rootless and decadent generation that inhabited it.

Inspired by Fitzgerald's own courtship of his future wife Zelda, 'The Last of the Belles' centres on the Southern beauty Ailie Calhoun from Tarleton, Georgia, who finds herself the object of attention of all the officers at a nearby army base, including the narrator, Andy. A wistful and melancholy exploration of unfulfilled dreams and lost youth, the story is considered one of Fitzgerald's finest pieces of short fiction. This volume also includes other acclaimed stories - such as 'Jacob's Ladder', 'The Swimmers' and 'The Bridal Party' - written by Fitzgerald between 1927 and 1931, during the prolonged period in which he was struggling to compose Tender Is the Night.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (18961940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.Tender Is the Night is a novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was his fourth and final completed novel, and was first published in Scribners Magazine between JanuaryApril, 1934 in four issues. The title is taken from the poem "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats.In 1932, Fitzgeralds wife Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald was hospitalized for schizophrenia in Baltimore, Maryland. The author rented the "la Paix" estate in the suburb of Towson to work on this book, the story of the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychoanalyst and his wife, Nicole, who is also one of his patients. It was Fitzgeralds first novel in nine years, and the last that he would complete. While working on the book he several times ran out of cash and had to borrow from his editor and agent, and write short stories for commercial magazines. The early 1930s, when Fitzgerald was conceiving and working on the book, were certainly the darkest years of his life, and accordingly, the novel has its bleak elements.In the novel, Dick is eventually ruined--professionally, emotionally, and spiritually--by his union with Nicole. Of all his novels, Tender Is the Night is arguably the one closest to his heart.As he himself wrote, "Gatsby was a tour de force, but this is a confession of faith."

This comedic short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald follows the character of Julie.A nonsensical, witty, and charming tale, Porcelain and Pink features a pink girl in a bathtub and an incident involving a false identity. The bathroom setting was probably a bit shocking for the time, but Fitzgeralds humour shines through with her dialogue as she comes out with hysterical one-liners. Porcelain and Pink will delight fans of Mark Twain.