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The Great Gatsby de F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

Autor F. Scott Fitzgerald Sam Sloan Ilustrat de Bruce Dean
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en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iun 2009

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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-13: 9784871878401
ISBN-10: 4871878406
Pagini: 210
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Ishi Press

De ce să citești această carte

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

The Great Gatsby is regarded as "The Great American Novel". An original edition recently came up for auction. The winning bid was One Hundred Fifty-Five Thousand Dollars, before the auction house premium was added. After the Auction House Premium of 22% was added, the total came to $189,100. Since I was present at the auction, I can tell you who submitted the winning bid of $155,000. Indeed, the cover is the most famous part of the book. The cover of The Great Gatsby is among the most celebrated pieces of jacket art in American literature. Francis Cugat was commissioned to illustrate the book while Fitzgerald was in the midst of writing it. The cover was completed before the novel, with Fitzgerald so enamored of it that he told his publisher he had written it into the novel. Little is known of Francis Cugat other than that he was the older brother of famous Cuban bandleader Xavier Cugat. After several initial sketches of various completeness, Cugat produced a pair of eyes hovering over the bright lights of an amusement park. The woman has no nose but full and voluptuous lips. Descending from the right eye is a green tear. The irises depict a pair of reclining yellow nudes.

Notă biografică

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an American novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota to Edward and Mary Fitzgerald, he was raised in Buffalo in a middle-class Catholic family. Fitzgerald excelled in school from a young age and was known as an active and curious student, primarily of literature. In 1908 the family returned to St. Paul, where Fitzgerald published his first work of fiction, a detective story, at the age of 13. He completed his high school education at the Newman School in New Jersey before enrolling at Princeton University. In 1917, reeling from an ill-fated relationship and waning in his academic pursuits, Fitzgerald dropped out of Princeton to join the Army. While stationed in Alabama, he began a relationship with Zelda Sayre, a Montgomery socialite. In 1919, he moved to New York City, where he struggled to launch his career as a writer. His first novel, This Side of Paradise (1920), was a resounding success, earning Fitzgerald a sustainable income and allowing him to marry Zelda. Following the birth of his daughter Scottie in 1921, Fitzgerald published his second novel, The Beautiful and the Damned (1922), and Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), a collection of short stories. His rising reputation in New York's social and literary scenes coincided with a growing struggle with alcoholism and the deterioration of Zelda's mental health. Despite this, Fitzgerald managed to complete his masterpiece The Great Gatsby (1925), a withering portrait of corruption and decay at the heart of American society. After living for several years in France in Italy, the end of the decade marked the decline of Fitzgerald's reputation as a writer, forcing him to move to Hollywood in pursuit of work as a screenwriter. His alcoholism accelerated in these last years, leading to severe heart problems and eventually his death at the age of 44. By this time, he was virtually forgotten by the public, but critical reappraisal and his influence on such writers as Ernest Hemingway, J.D. Salinger, and Richard Yates would ensure his status as one of the greatest figures in twentieth-century American fiction.

Recenzii

Praise for The Great Gatsby

"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

Acknowledgments; Illustrations; Introduction; The holograph of The Great Gatsby; A note on the text; Text of the manuscript; Explanatory notes; Illustrations.

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