Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald was a literary figure who embodied the spirit of the 1920s. Her writing, matured through complex personal experiences, reflects themes of passion, artistic pursuit, and the fragility of selfhood. Through her novels and short stories, she explored the intricacies of relationships and the pressures of societal expectations and personal ambition on the individual. Her work retains a captivating quality that continues to fascinate readers.
To the French Riviera come Dick and Nicole Diver. Handsome, rich and glamorous, their dinners are legendary, their atmosphere magnetic. But something is wrong - Nicole has a secret and Dick a weakness. Together they head towards the rocks on which their lives crash - and only one of them really survives. Fitzgerald worked on seventeen versions of this novel, the obsessions of which consumed his marriage and his life.
Presents the story of the confessional of a famous glamour girl of the affluent 1920s and an aspiring ballerina which captures the spirit of an era.
These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death. Increasingly disillusioned by the rejection slips that studded the walls of his room and his on/off engagement to Zelda Sayre, Fitzgerald began his third revision of the novel that was to become This Side of Paradise. The story of a young man's painful sexual and intellectual awakening that echoes Fitzgerald's own career, it is also a portrait of the lost generation that followed straight on from the First World War, 'grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken' and wanting money and success more than anything else.
Tales of Scott and Zelda roadtripping, finally back in print In an early series of journalistic pieces for Motor magazine, F. Scott Fitzgerald described a journey he took with his wife Zelda from Connecticut to Alabama in a clapped out automobile which he called the "Rolling Junk." It is a piece of writing whose style, in free-ranging alternation of fact and fiction, has been compared to Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat . This book collects together the articles as one text, illustrated with the original illustrations of Fitzgerald, Zelda, and the "Junk."
Zelda Fitzgerald (1900-1948) visse con Scott un amore all’altezza dei suoi libri: «belli e dannati», fecero della loro vita insieme un’opera d’arte e di sé stessi un simbolo della propria epoca. In questo volume sono raccolte alcune delle lettere più belle che Zelda inviò a Scott nell’arco di dodici anni, tra il 1919 e il 1931: appassionata, anticonvenzionale, burrascosa, in un susseguirsi continuo di slanci e cadute, la loro storia è per sempre immortalata in queste pagine, resa indimenticabile dalla personalità, dall’intelligenza e dalla sensibilità di una donna fuori dall’ordinario.
Erzählungen
Unkonventionell, klug und witzig – der Sensationsfund aus der Feder der Stilikone. Kaum jemand verkörpert den Zeitgeist der Roaring Twenties so wie Zelda Fitzgerald. Sie war der Prototyp des »Flappers«: frech, abenteuerlustig, extravagant. Ihre Erzählungen entführen uns in das glamouröse, schillernde Bühnenuniversum der Tänzerinnen, Schauspielerinnen und Sängerinnen und erwecken das Gefühl dieser Ära zum Leben. Die Lichter des Broadway, Schrankkoffer voll Tüllkleider, Orchideen in onduliertem Haar: Diese hinreißend sinnlichen Erzählungen handeln von der hohen Kunst, sich selbst zu inszenieren – und von dem Preis, den man dafür zahlt.
Die Erzählung beleuchtet die komplexe Natur der Ehe, die als ständige Auseinandersetzung wahrgenommen wird. Der Protagonist reflektiert über die Herausforderungen und Konflikte, die in einer Partnerschaft auftreten, und hinterfragt die grundlegenden Werte und Erwartungen, die mit dem Eheleben verbunden sind. Durch persönliche Erfahrungen und Beobachtungen wird die Ehe als ein Kampf dargestellt, der sowohl schmerzhafte als auch lehrreiche Momente umfasst. Die tiefgründige Auseinandersetzung mit diesem Thema regt zum Nachdenken über die Essenz von Beziehungen an.
Now the subject of a major film by Baz Luhrmann, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan, this work is F. Scott Fitzgerald's brilliant fable of the hedonistic excess and tragic reality of 1920s America. Edited with an introduction and notes by Tony Tanner, it follows young, handsome, and fabulously rich Jay Gatsby, the bright star of the Jazz Age. As writer Nick Carraway becomes immersed in Gatsby's extravagant world, he confronts the mystery of Gatsby's origins and desires. Beneath the glamorous facade lies a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled, leading to a destructive obsession that unravels Gatsby's life. Fitzgerald captures the disillusionment of post-war America and the moral failures of a society fixated on wealth and status. More than a reflection of a specific era, the narrative chronicles Gatsby's tragic pursuit of his dream, embodying the universal conflict between illusion and reality. Fitzgerald, who married Zelda Sayre, whose struggles influenced his writing, has attained mythical status in American literary history. His masterwork is often regarded as the 'great American novel.' After his death, The New York Times noted that he 'created a "generation"' in both fact and literary sense.
Začínající balerína Alabama a úspěšný malíř David na první pohled vypadají jako dokonalý mladý pár. Skutečnost je ale jiná. Přestože oba patří k americké smetánce jazzového věku, jejich manželství se kvůli hádkám a žárlivosti rozpadá. Alabama nakonec přistoupí k ráznému kroku a od Davida i své dcery se odstěhuje, aby se mohla věnovat své kariéře v prestižním tanečním souboru. Vážné zranění ale všechno vmžiku změní.
