Ora soggetto di un nuovo importante film del regista Baz Luhrmann (Romeo+Juliet, Moulin Rouge!), con Leonardo DiCaprio e Carey Mulligan, Il grande Gatsby è la brillante favola di F. Scott Fitzgerald sull'eccesso edonistico e la tragica realtà dell'America degli anni '20. Questa edizione Penguin Classics è curata con un'introduzione e note di Tony Tanner. Giovane, bello e favolosamente ricco, Jay Gatsby è la stella luminosa dell'era del jazz, ma quando lo scrittore Nick Carraway viene trascinato nell'orbita decadente della sua villa di Long Island, dove la festa sembra non finire mai, si ritrova di fronte al mistero delle origini e dei desideri di Gatsby. Sotto la superficie scintillante della sua vita, Gatsby nasconde un segreto: un desiderio silenzioso che non potrà mai essere soddisfatto. E presto, questa ossessione distruttiva costringerà il suo mondo a sgretolarsi. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald cattura brillantemente sia la disillusione dell'America del dopoguerra sia il fallimento morale di una società ossessionata dalla ricchezza e dallo status. Ma fa di più che rendere l'essenza di un tempo e di un luogo particolari, perché - nel raccontare la tragica ricerca del sogno di Gatsby - Fitzgerald ricrea il conflitto universale tra illusione e realtà. Come Jay Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) ha acquisito uno status mitico nella storia letteraria americana e il suo capolavoro The Great Gatsby è considerato da molti il "grande romanzo americano". Nel 1920 sposò Zelda Sayre, soprannominata "la prima flapper americana", e il loro traumatico matrimonio e la graduale discesa di Zelda nella follia divennero l'influenza principale sulla sua scrittura. Oltre a molti racconti, Fitzgerald scrisse cinque romanzi: This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and the Damned, Tender is the Night e, incompleto al momento della sua morte, The Last Tycoon. Dopo la sua morte, il New York Times disse di lui che "in effetti e in senso letterario ha creato una "generazione"". "Un classico, forse il romanzo americano supremo" John Carey, Sunday Times Books of the Century
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and educated at Princeton. Stationed in Alabama, he met and later married Zelda Sayre. His first novel, This Side of Paradise, was published in 1920 and was a tremendous critical and commercial success. Fitzgerald followed with The Beautiful and the Damned in 1922, The Great Gatsby in 1925 and Tender is the Night in 1934. He was working on The Last Tycoon (1941) when he died, in Hollywood, in 1940.
Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach ... Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby - young, handsome, fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled. And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel.
Now the subject of a major new film from director Baz Luhrmann (Romeo+Juliet, Moulin Rouge!), starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan, The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald's brilliant fable of the hedonistic excess and tragic reality of 1920s America. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Tony Tanner.
Young, handsome and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby is the bright star of the Jazz Age, but as writer Nick Carraway is drawn into the decadent orbit of his Long Island mansion, where the party never seems to end, he finds himself faced by the mystery of Gatsby's origins and desires. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life, Gatsby is hiding a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled. And soon, this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel.
In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusionment of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with wealth and status. But he does more than render the essence of a particular time and place, for - in chronicling Gatsby's tragic pursuit of his dream - Fitzgerald re-creates the universal conflict between illusion and reality.
Like Jay Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) has acquired a mythical status in American literary history, and his masterwork The Great Gatsby is considered by many to be the 'great American novel'. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre, dubbed 'the first American Flapper', and their traumatic marriage and Zelda's gradual descent into insanity became the leading influence on his writing. As well as many short stories, Fitzgerald wrote five novels This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and the Damned, Tender is the Night and, incomplete at the time of his death, The Last Tycoon. After his death The New York Times said of him that 'in fact and in the literary sense he created a "generation" '.
'A classic, perhaps the supreme American novel'
John Carey, Sunday Times Books of the Century
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