The Great Gatsby: Arcturus Ornate Classics
Autor F. Scott Fitzgeralden Limba Engleză Hardback – 26 oct 2020
Observăm în The Great Gatsby o miza psihologică ce transcende epoca în care a fost scrisă: lupta tragică a individului de a ancora prezentul într-un trecut idealizat. Jay Gatsby nu este doar un milionar excentric, ci simbolul unei dorințe tăcute care nu poate fi niciodată împlinită. Prin ochii lui Nick Carraway, suntem martorii unei lumi strălucitoare, unde petrecerile nesfârșite din Long Island maschează o fragilitate morală profundă. Stilul lui F. Scott Fitzgerald este aici la apogeu, oferind o proză poetică ce capturează perfect ritmul sincopat al anilor '20 și melancolia ce urmează excesului.
Ca și This Side of Paradise, acest roman explorează criza de identitate a unei generații care încearcă să se definească după distrugerea „vechii ordini”, dar dintr-o perspectivă mult mai matură și mai tăioasă asupra eșecului social. Dacă în primele sale lucrări F. Scott Fitzgerald analiza entuziasmul tinerelor elite, în „Marele Gatsby” el disecă mecanismul prin care optimismul american se transformă în obsesie distructivă. Structura ediției de față, ce cuprinde note explicative și fragmente din manuscris, permite cititorului să vadă dincolo de suprafața sclipitoare a narațiunii, înțelegând procesul meticulos de construcție a acestui „fabul” despre hedonism. Este o experiență de lectură care nu se bazează pe suspansul acțiunii, ci pe acumularea lentă a unei tensiuni ce culminează cu prăbușirea inevitabilă a unei lumi construite pe aparențe.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1839409231
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: Imitation cloth with silver foil blocking
Dimensiuni: 108 x 168 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Arcturus Publishing
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Recomandăm această ediție cititorilor care doresc să descopere profunzimea literaturii clasice americane. Dincolo de ecranizările celebre, romanul oferă o analiză fină a psihologiei umane și a stratificării sociale. Veți câștiga o perspectivă critică asupra conceptului de succes, totul într-un format accesibil din seria Collins Classics, îmbogățit cu aparatură critică esențială pentru înțelegerea contextului istoric al Erei Jazzului.
Despre autor
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896–1940) a fost un scriitor american emblematic, a cărui operă a definit imaginea extravagantă a anilor '20. Deși a cunoscut un succes fulminant odată cu debutul său, This Side of Paradise, recunoașterea sa ca unul dintre cei mai mari romancieri ai secolului XX a venit post-mortem. Viața sa, marcată de mariajul tumultuos cu Zelda Sayre și de lupta cu propriile excese, a servit drept sursă constantă de inspirație pentru temele sale recurente: banii, clasa socială și eșecul visului american. A publicat patru romane finalizate și numeroase volume de povestiri, rămânând vocea definitivă a „generației pierdute”.
Descriere
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
Descriere scurtă
The basis for the Tony Award–winning Broadway musical starring Jeremy Jordan and Eva Noblezada
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper
Young, handsome, and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby seems to have everything. But at his mansion east of New York City, in West Egg, Long Island, where the party never seems to end, he's often alone in the glittering Jazz Age crowd, watching and waiting, as speculation swirls around him--that he's a bootlegger, that he was a German spy during the war, that he even killed a man. As writer Nick Carraway is drawn into this decadent orbit, he begins to see beneath the shimmering surface of the enigmatic Gatsby, for whom one thing will always be out of reach: Nick's cousin, the married Daisy Buchanan, whose house is visible from Gatsby's just across the bay.
A brilliant evocation of the Roaring Twenties and a satire of a postwar America obsessed with wealth and status, The Great Gatsby is a novel whose power remains undiminished after a century. This edition, based on scholarship dating back to the novel's first publication in 1925, restores Fitzgerald's masterpiece to the original American classic he envisioned, and features an introduction addressing how gender, race, class, and sexuality complicate the pursuit of the American Dream.
For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Notă biografică
Min Jin Lee (introduction) is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels American Hagwon and Pachinko—a finalist for the National Book Award and one of The New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century—and of the nationally bestselling novel Free Food for Millionaires. She has received the Fitzgerald Prize for Literary Excellence, the Manhae Grand Prize for Literature from South Korea, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and has been inducted into the New York Foundation for the Arts Hall of Fame and the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. She lives in New York City.
Philip McGowan (editor, notes) is an executive board member of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society, the president of the European Association for American Studies, a professor of American literature at Queen's University Belfast, and a co-editor of The Routledge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Recenzii
"A curious book, a mystical, glamourous story of today." —The New York Times
“One of the most quintessentially American novels ever written.” ―Time
“The American masterwork, the finest work of fiction by any of this country’s writers.” ―The Washington Post
"Leaves the reader in a mood of chastened wonder . . . A revelation of life . . . A work of art." —Los Angeles Times
"A remarkable book. . . . It has interested and excited me more than any new novel I have seen, either English or American, for a number of years. . . . . It seems to me to be the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James." —T.S. Eliot.
"There are many novels which claim that they are the greatest love story of all time. It is only in the case of this novel that that statement can be applied and be true." —The Guardian
"Fascinating . . . His style fairly scintillates, and with a genuine brilliance; he writes surely and soundly." —New York Post
"Were you to lay this thing out by the sentence, it’d be as close as an array of words could get to strands of pearls. “The cab stopped at one slice in a long white cake of apartment-houses”? That line alone is almost enough to make me quit typing for the rest of my life." —The Paris Review
Cuprins
- Introduction
- Note on the Text
- Select Bibliography
- A Chronology of F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Map of Manhattan to Long Island
- THE GREAT GATSBY
- Explanatory Notes