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Francis Scott Fitzgerald is my favorite author, so I can't wait for this book to come out! I fell in love with him as soon as I read the famous novel about Gatsby, and since then he has firmly occupied first place in my heart among all other writers. I love his language, his manner of presentation, his sense of style and the way he masterfully recreates in his works, be it short stories or large novels, the amazing and indescribable atmosphere of the 20-30s of the twentieth century. I hope that the book will be available to purchase and read soon! And I also really hope that the translation will be good, because this is important for the correct perception of the book.

I love Fitzgerald, so I'm really looking forward to this book! After I read his famous novels (especially about Gatsby), I could not recover from delight for a long time... This is truly one of the best American authors in the world. In his books, he touches on topics that are still relevant today, makes you experience strong emotions while reading, and completely immerses you in his amazing world! Therefore, having read almost all of his works, I secretly hoped that someday they would publish previously unpublished things, and I turned out to be right! I have not expected the release of a book with such trepidation and excitement for a long time.

A touching story of moral degradation

It turns out that Fitzgerald, famous mainly for his “The Great Gatsby,” called “Tender is the Night” “his most beloved work.” This is understandable: the novel is autobiographical, and was written, I’m sure, as a kind of self-therapy. Well, to survive your own pain, to support yourself in a difficult struggle... And when you write for yourself, people often need it.

The lives of Fitzgerald and Zelda are saturated with the sad, painful story of Dick and Nicole. A house by the sea, social gatherings, trips, eccentric antics, alcohol abuse and the terrible diagnosis of “schizophrenia” given to the wife are recognized.

I really liked the style of narration, somewhat reminiscent of Flaubert - scenes flow smoothly from one to another, from life to life, very cinematically, unnecessary time is skipped through hints, and the story, which at first seems so secularly typical, turns 180 degrees. The author handles it amazingly, making the plot seem tangible. At first he shows one side of him - and the reader sympathizes with Rosemary and Dick. Then we see the other side of the coin - and we begin to feel sorry for the unfortunate Nicole and hate the dummy actress and the drunken doctor. But in the finale, the prototype of Zelda also falls in the eyes of the reader... It becomes clear that they are all simple people, neither good nor bad, but so human and helpless in the face of passions and life. Their characters are written with such psychological precision that it is impossible not to empathize with one or the other hero.

The inserts are very pleasing - the writer’s thoughts about love, emotions, suffering. Fitzgerald's thoughts are deep and precise - it becomes clear how much he felt this story. Excellent, precise language and attention to detail give rise to fantasy pictures of the secular society of the Jazz Age, and one cannot help but like it.

This is a touching story of the collapse and degradation of an idealist, sensual and tragic, and cannot fail to touch the strings of the soul. There are a lot of experiences, difficult decisions, you unwittingly put yourself in Dick’s place and find yourself completely confused and frustrated. Amazing. Strongly.

This is the first novel from Fitzgerald's work that I have read. Of course, now his other works are on the line, as well as Hemingway’s “A Holiday That Is Always With You,” which tells a lot about Fitzgerald and Zelda.

Great

The book is "read" by Nick Carraway, who gives advice to everyone - not to judge other people who have not had his advantages. Nick had this before he met Gatsby. But he talks about this from his memories, a kind of story - nostalgia, and there is something to regret.
Nick meets Jay Gatsby at his party, which he throws on a grand scale and for the slightest reason or without. At the same time, Nick meets Daisy and Tom Buchanan, a married couple who will play an important role in Gatsby’s fate.
Gradually, moving in elite circles and being assigned to Gatsby as his new friend, Nick learns more and more secrets about Gatsby’s past life, told by himself, as the only soul to whom he entrusted his secrets.
For example, about how Jay was abandoned by a girl, or rather, did not wait for him when he left to serve, being a nobody, but wanting to achieve a lot. He acquired wealth, but was betrayed by love. This is why I developed a strong antipathy towards the main character – that same Daisy.
Nick is surprised when Gatsby tells him the story of his rise up the social ladder, which seems like a fiction. And then he meets Gatsby’s business partner - the shady businessman Mayer Wulfshim.
Another of Nick's acquaintances, Jordan Baker, tells him why Gatsby is so persistent in demonstrating his triumph over the cream of society. Blinding and luring with luxury, he wants to impress only one person - Daisy, because... still in love with her. But she doesn’t appear at his parties. Through Jordan, Jay asks Nick to arrange a meeting for him with Daisy, after which the former lovers are reunited.
Having learned about his wife's affair, Tom declares war on Gatsby and asks Daisy to make a choice. Gatsby asks her the same. Daisy doubts, but a fatal coincidence occurs: while driving in a car with Gatsby, she hits and kills Myrtle, the wife of their friend George Wilson, who accused her of infidelity.
Everything happened too quickly, and George dreams of revenge. And Gatsby takes all the blame on himself, declaring that he was driving the car. Nick advises Jay to hide for a while, and the last words he said to Jay were: “Nothing on nothing, that’s what they are. You alone are worth more than all of them put together.”
George Wilson, on Tom's tip, shoots Gatsby in his own pool, and then shoots himself. Daisy stayed with her husband and did not answer calls from Nick. There were no friends or acquaintances; there was almost no one at the funeral except the servants. Tom and Daisy disappeared without leaving an address.
I think everything is clear without any afterwords. A story about love and betrayal, about the great Gatsby, who stood alone among the elite class around him.

Francis Scott Fitzgerald is a famous American author who wrote many novels and short stories in which he described the Jazz Age of the 1920s. The author’s popularity was also enhanced by his public relationship with his wife Zelda.

Fitzgerald lived and worked during the highest dawn of American history. His contemporaries were T. Wolfe, Sandburg, Hemingway, Forest, Faulkner and Dreiser. Together they created new literature.

Fitzgerald's work

The writer’s work occupies one of the most worthy places in modern literature. Fitzgerald's books are in great demand around the world. Many of them are included in the lists of the best and most read. The writer was one of the first to speak to readers after the end of the war and managed to introduce poetic notes of celebration after all the disappointments.

Fitzgerald deftly knew how to combine naivety of feelings with a distinct impartiality in his works; he loved to write about what he personally experienced. He masterfully depicted the subtle experiences of the characters, evoked sincere emotions in the reader and controlled them.

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Brief biography of Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota. In the family of a small Irish entrepreneur. The future writer had the opportunity to study in prestigious institutions, so from 12 to 14 years old he studied at the Academy of Sao Paulo, and then, starting in 1913, at the Newman School.

Fitzgerald loved attending school and then Princeton University. However, before he could receive his diploma, he went to war. The writer began his first book, “The Other Side of Paradise,” while he was serving his military service. Upon returning home, he married Zelda Sayre.

The first novel received positive reviews, which allowed it to be published in expensive magazines. Success comes with popularity and works come out one after another.

After the publication of the collection “All These Sad Young Men” in 1926, a difficult period began. For 10 years, the author writes for newspapers, and his wife begins to lose her mind. Treatment does not help, the writer begins to abuse alcohol.

In 1937, Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood and began earning money by writing film scripts. The writer died young, at the age of 44, from a heart attack.
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Francis Scott Kay Fitzgerald(Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, 1896-1940) - American writer, known for his novels and short stories describing the so-called American "Jazz Age" of the 1920s. The author’s fame was also facilitated by Fitzgerald’s personal life with his wife Zelda being exposed to “public display.”
Biography
Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota, into a fairly wealthy Catholic family. He studied at Princeton University, but did not graduate. At the university he became close friends with Edmund Wilson.
In 1917 he was drafted into the army, but never took part in military operations abroad. Instead, Fitzgerald devoted all his time to working on his first novel, This Side of Paradise, which became a great success upon publication in 1920. That same year, Fitzgerald married Zelda Sayre, with whom he enjoyed a fun, rich life of parties, receptions and trips to European resorts. All this time, Scott also managed to write quite a lot for magazines, which brought in a very significant income (he was one of the highest paid authors of the then “glossy” magazines). The Fitzgeralds were famous both for their works and their luxurious lifestyle. Fitzgerald once said, “I don’t know whether Zelda and I are real people or characters from one of my novels.” The first book was followed by The Beautiful and the Damned (1922) and The Great Gatsby (1925) - a novel that many critics, and Fitzgerald himself, consider a masterpiece of American literature of that period . Many stories were also written during these years in which Fitzgerald earned money to support his expensive lifestyle.
The subsequent years of Fitzgerald's life were very difficult. In 1930, Zelda suffered from a mental disorder, after which she suffered from schizophrenia all her life. In 1934, he wrote Tender is the Night, a largely autobiographical novel in which Fitzgerald described his pain, the battle to save his marriage, and the downside of their luxurious life. The book was not a big success in America, and Fitzgerald began writing scripts in Hollywood.
In October 1939, Fitzgerald began writing a novel about Hollywood life, The Last Tycoon (1941), which remained unfinished. During his three years in Hollywood, he also wrote a series of stories and articles, mostly autobiographical in nature, published after his death in the collection The Crack-Up (1945).
Fitzgerald died of a heart attack on December 21, 1940 in Hollywood, California.

Francis Scott Fitzgerald is an American writer who was born in 1896 and whose life was cut short by a heart attack in 1940 in California.

The origins of Francis's family are rooted in a fairly well-known Irish family, so the parents were quite wealthy and were able to give their son an excellent education, which in the future was reflected in the literary biography of Scott Fitzgerald. For example, when the crisis came and the financial situation of Francis's father was practically on the verge of collapse, Francis Scott nevertheless continued to study in the best educational institutions.

Creativity in the biography of Scott Fitzgerald

Novelist and short story writer Scott Fitzgerald entered literature as one of the representatives of the “lost generation.” In the novels of the early 20s, “Beyond Paradise” and “The Beautiful and the Doomed,” he depicts the tragedy of the younger generation of Americans living in a corrupting environment where everything is bought and sold. The feeling of instability, transience of life, awareness of the illusory hopes with which the younger generation entered life permeate the novels and short stories of Francis Scott Fitzgerald. His heroes rush about, strive for success, look for ways to realize the possibilities hidden within them, but only come to inner devastation and awareness of the futility of their lives.

The writer's works are imbued with hatred of the rich. They intricately combine a realistic, merciless depiction of reality and the romantic view of the heroes. The author shows the disintegration of the human personality, following the path of compromise in order to achieve wealth. At the same time, he subtly and deeply penetrates into the recesses of the human soul, he is characterized by genuine psychologism, the ability to convey the inner world of his heroes, especially those experiencing some kind of shock.

Fitzgerald's best works

The best work that played a key role in the biography of Scott Fitzgerald is the novel “The Great Gatsby” (1925). This is the story of a clever adventurer, a gifted and energetic man, but in his quest for wealth, he makes deals with his conscience and gradually turns into a slave of money, which never brings him happiness.

The same theme of the soul-destroying desire for wealth and the death of a gifted person permeates the writer’s next novel, Tender is the Night. The image of the main character of the novel, Richard Driver, reflects the feeling of internal bankruptcy that the writer himself experienced. The novel “The Last Tycoon” remained unfinished. The description of Hollywood in this novel summarizes many of the characteristic trends of the “jazz age.” The central figure of Monroe Star is close to the writer because it allows him to reveal the tragic contradiction of a real artist who is forced to sacrifice principles in search of happiness.

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Gatsby has always been my kind of distant “one day I’ll get to you,” but the book remained for many years standing on the shelf looking at me reproachfully, and everything would have remained that way if it weren’t for the ridley games.
Let me start with the fact that I simply adore the era of the 20-30s in cinema, music, parties, their awesome dresses, you know, with a low waist, all so alluringly sparkling, and of course, what about Chicago-steel, in which the fringe is so big . And the headband? And also these long beads and jewelry swaying elegantly on long chains... Well, isn’t it lovely?
In general, as you understand, I was looking forward to the atmosphere of the 20s, parties and an enveloping story, but how much I was disappointed when I received a completely empty story, no atmosphere of that time, no impressive plot. Well, well, well, half empty, some tragic event that happened in the finale nevertheless sent ripples of resonance in my darling.

I don’t know, maybe this is the same book case of “don’t create an idol”, I waited so much that what I received couldn’t compare with my expectations.. Damn, I’m like fucking Gatsby, I waited for so long that having received (read) what I had long wanted, I feel confusion and mixed feelings. I cannot understand everyone's admiration for this work. What was it? All evil comes from women? Unfulfilled expectations? Empty wrapper? Does everyone die alone? All this lacked some kind of anguish. It is, of course, very important to understand that in pursuit of illusory happiness you can miss your own life and be left alone in the dark, but here it was somehow... frivolous. Is it the fact that the characters lack depth and the plot lacks drama, or is it me and my selfishness, I don’t love anyone but myself (and cats), for me I always come first.. Damn, now I’m Daisy .. It was hard for me to understand Gatsby, his desire to get out among people in order to one day win the heart of the one who conquered him, if that was even the case. It seems to me that Gatsby was so carried away by this desire that, having become mired in his dreams, he not only lost the chance for a normal life, friends and love, but also did not notice that the one for whom he did all this was wrong and he needed him, simply continued live by inertia. This makes it difficult to sympathize with him; he is quite pitiful. And it’s not clear at all what kind of guy this Gatsby is, and what is his greatness? First, the narrator - Nick - says that there is nothing to even talk about with Gatsby, and then we read how Nick is delighted with the story about Gatsby's real life. But what’s amazing about it is still unclear, well, he was able to get rich by supplying alcohol to Prohibition, but as a person we don’t see him at all, he’s like a shadow of himself. And this applies to all the characters, they are absolutely not developed, so much so that if you lose half the characters, the meaning will not change. Daisy was a mercantile bitch who only cared about her position, but this is according to the narrator Nick, we again don’t see her and we don’t know why she makes certain decisions, and even if she is as infantile and mercantile as Nick introduces her to us at the end , then why did she choose the wrong guy? Is it just to find a scapegoat? And what about Nick and his golfer? Why was their story needed?

In general, I was not able to feel the book at all, but when discussing the book after reading it, I agreed that if everything had not turned out the way it did and the story had continued, then in the end Gatsby would have been completely disappointed in Daisy and, having closed his five-year gestalt, sent she would be far away.

However, I plan to watch the film and hope that the scenery will distract my attention and smooth out the characters' stories. Well, plus I was told that in the film there is also a strange sequence with scattered shirts and Daisy sobbing over them, so I plan to once again really amaze myself with this.

(Era of revolutions: XVIII century - early XX century)