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.
A story of Americans living on the French Riviera in the 1930s is a portrait of psychological disintegration as a wealthy couple supports friends and hangers-on financially and emotionally at the cost of their own stability.
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.
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald has long been perceived as the tragic "other half" of the Scott and Zelda legend. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, this southern belle turned flapper was talented in dance, painting, and writing but lived in the shadow of her husband's success. Her writing can be experienced on its own terms in Matthew Bruccoli's meticulously edited The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald.The collection includes Zelda's only published novel, Save Me the Waltz, an autobiographical account of the Fitzgeralds' adventures in Paris and on the Riviera; her celebrated farce, Scandalabra; eleven short stories; twelve articles; and a selection of letters to her husband, written over the span of their marriage, that reveals the couple's loving and turbulent relationship.Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald has long been an American cultural icon. The Collected Writings affirms her place as a writer and as a symbol not only of the Lost Generation but of all generations as she struggled to define herself through her art.
Scott: "The Popular Girl" "Dice, Brassknuckles & Guitar"* "Love in the Night" Scott and Zelda: "Our Own Movie Queen" Zelda: "The Original Follies Girl" "Southern Girl" "The Girl the Prince Liked" "The Girl with Talent" "A Millionaire's Girl" "Poor Working Girl" Scott: "The Hotel Child" "A New Leaf" Zelda: "Miss Ella" "The Continental Angle" "A Couple of Nuts" Scott: "What a Handsome Pair!" "Last Kiss" "Dearly Beloved" * = "Dice, Brassknucles & Guitar" appeared only in the Pocketbook edition of Bits of Paradise.