F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Beautiful and Damned is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. It explores and portrays New York caf society and the American Eastern elite during the Jazz Age before and after "the Great War" and in the early 1920s. Fitzgerald's characters are complex, especially with respect to marriage and intimacy. A tale of morality, a meditation on love, money and decadence, and a social documentary. It concerns the characters' disproportionate appreciation of and focus on their past, which tends to consume them in the present. The novel is generally considered to have drawn upon Fitzgerald's relationship and marriage with his wife Zelda Fitzgerald.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, the Beautiful and the Damned portrays New York caf society and the American Eastern elite during the Jazz Age before and after "the Great War" and in the early 1920s.

FRANCIS SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940) was born in Minnesota and educated at Princeton. His first novel, "This Side of Paradise" (1920), made him instantly famous. Shortly after he married the glamorous Zelda Sayre, and together they embarked on a life of big spending and party going. He published stories in fashionable periodicals such as the "Saturday Evening", "Vanity Fair" and "The Smart Set", in which he chronicled the mood and manners of the times; these were collected as "Flappers and Philosophers" (1920) and "Tales of the Jazz Age" (1922). "The Beautiful and Damned"(1922), a novel about a wealthy, doomed and dissipated marriage, was followed by "The Great Gatsby" (1925), the story of shady, mysterious financer Jay Gatsby, whose romantic and destructive passion for Daisy Buchanan played against a backdrop of Long Island glamour and New York squalor; the story is narrated by the innocent outsider Nick Carraway. "Tender is the Night" (1934) records, through the story of American psychiatrist Dick Diver and his schizophrenic wife Nicole, his own sense of impending disaster. He died in Hollywood, of a heart attack, after working as a screenwriter, leaving his last novel, "The Last Tycoon", unfinished.

Una extraordinaria f bula sobre el sue o americano. Nominada por los estadounidenses como una de las 100 mejores novelas en la serie de PBS The Great American Read. Jay Gatsby, el caballero que reina sobre West Egg, es el arquetipo de aquellos m ticos a os veinte en que pareci que todo era posible, un tiempo de felicidad entre el horror de la Primera Guerra Mundial y la barbarie de la Segunda. Junto al resto de los protagonistas, representa a la Generaci n Perdida, a todos aquellos «j venes tristes que personificaron el mito de la pasi n y el desamor, de la literatura que se funde con la vida. Publicada por primera vez en 1925, El gran Gatsby est considerada como La Gran Novela Americana. Simboliza el triunfo, la perpetua juventud y el deslumbramiento que desembocan en la tragedia, la decadencia y la ca da, constantes reflejadas con asombrosa precisi n en la propia vida de Fitzgerald. «El gran Gatsby es el primer paso adelante dado por la narrativa norteamericana desde Henry James. - T. S. Eliot « l ten a una de las cualidades m s raras en la literatura: encanto, encanto como Keats lo hab a tenido y qui n lo posee hoy d a? - Raymond Chandler «Fitzgerald representa el estilo, la profundidad y la lucidez... Hay frases en sus libros que quedar n grabadas para siempre en tu memoria... Bienvenido sea cualquier pretexto cinematogr fico si sirve para que los lectores j venes descubran a Fitzgerald. Los viejos nunca hemos dejado de releerlo. La adicci n que crea es para siempre. Carlos Boyero, Babelia «Fitzgerald era el mejor de todos nosotros. -Ernest Hemingway «Fitzgerald es mi autor favorito. -Haruki Murakami «Le leer n cuando muchos de sus contempor neos est n olvidados. -Gertrude Stein ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s. The Great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature.

Mercurial Jay Gatsby's destructive passion for Daisy Buchanan is played out against the background of Long Island high society. Viewed through the eyes of an outsider, Gatsby's life is the story of a generation – glitz and glamour turning sour, and the high life turning to ashes. Immersing you in the decadence of America’s Jazz Age, The Great Gatsby is brought to life in this sizzling new stage adaptation. Recreating the sights, sounds and feel of America’s ‘Roaring Twenties’ as seen through the eyes of Nick Carraway, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece is a brilliant evocation of a society obsessed with wealth and status. This masterful adaptation by Stephen Sharkey was first published to coincide with the premiere and national tour by Blackeyed Theatre, opening in September 2015.

The novel provides a portrait of the Eastern elite during the Jazz Age, exploring New York Caf Society. As with his other novels, Fitzgerald's characters are complex, especially in their marriage and intimacy, much like how he treats intimacy in Tender Is the Night. The book is believed to be largely based on Fitzgerald's relationship and marriage with Zelda Fitzgerald.