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Set in the South of France in the decade after World War I, "Tender is the Night" is the story of a brilliant and magnetic psychiatrist named Dick Diver; the bewitching, wealthy, and dangerously unstable mental patient, Nicole, who becomes his wife; and the beautiful, harrowing ten-year pas de deux they act out along the border between sanity and madness. In "Tender is the Night", Fitzgerald deliberately set out to write the most ambitious and far-reaching novel of his career, experimenting radically with narrative conventions of chronology and point of view and drawing on early breakthroughs in psychiatry to enrich his account of the makeup and breakdown of character and culture.

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Mientras redactaba su obra maestra El gran Gatsby, Francis Scott Fitzgerald escribió una serie de historias donde ensayaba la relación entre un hombre hecho a sí mismo y una mujer frívola y rica, preferentemente rubia. Algunos fueron incorporados a la novela, otros sirvieron exclusivamente para construir esa atmosfera a ritmo de jazz, dominada por el alcohol y el lujo, que constituye el entorno de Gatsby. Tres de esos relatos Sueños de invierno (1922), Dados, puño americano y guitarra (1923) y Lo mas sensato (1924) han sido seleccionados para componer este libro donde subyace el azaroso romance que Scott Fitzgerald mantuvo en vida con su mujer, la voluble y snob Zelda. En estas tres joyas se advierte claramente la herencia literaria de Mark Twain y se abre el camino a otros autores como Carson McCullers o Tennesse Williams. Son el retrato de una generacion que triunfo en la Primera Guerra Mundial y se hundio en el Crack del 29.

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.

El lector de esta antología encontrará aparte de genio literario una ácida crónica social.

This title features 6 of the "Roaring Twenties" chronicler''s most scintillating short stories, chosen from "Flappers and Philosophers" (1920) and "Tales of the Jazz Age" (1922). This inexpensive volume comprises "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz", "The Ice Palace", "Bernice Bobs Her Hair", "May Day", "The Jelly-Bean", and "The Offshore Pirate".

No writer portrayed Americas Roaring Twenties as vividly as F. Scott Fitzgerald. In his effervescent tales of elegant ingenues on the prowl for husbands, Ivy League heirs en route to futures of idle entitlement, and endless alcohol-fueled dance parties at ritzy country clubs, he limned a culture giddy with excess and as reckless as it was refined. Gifted with remarkable powers of observation and a witty way with words, Fitzgerald wrote stories that seem as fresh and modern today as they did when published nearly a century ago.

La famosa frase de F. Scott Fitzgerald: «Apropa la cadira a la vora del precipici i t'explicaré un conte», alhora que és aplicable al conjunt de la seva narrativa, reflecteix un accentuat gust pel fa

Published soon after Fitzgeralds debut novel This Side of Paradise, Flappers and Philosophers was the authors first collection of short fiction, a form through which he had gained notoriety in newspapers and magazines. The familiar themes of aspiration and social satire already permeate his writing: in Bernice Bobs Her Hair the fashionable Marjorie attempts to turn her dowdy cousin into a debutante, before betraying her out of jealousy, while The Ice Palace features a Southern belle whose engagement to a Northerner finds her confronted with a cultural clash between tradition and modernity.Also containing The Offshore Pirate, Head and Shoulders, The Cut-Glass Bowl, Benediction, Dalyrimple Goes Wrong and The Four Fists, this volume of stories illustrates the early stages of Fitzgeralds development as a writer and provides an entertaining chronicle of America in the 1910s.________''He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation.'' The New York Times