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"Gli ultimi fuochi" è il lascito di un romanzo incompiuto che Francis Scott Fitzgerald non terminò a causa di un attacco cardiaco, e che possiede tutte le caratteristiche del capolavoro letterario. L'autore vi lavorò quando la sua stella era declinata e aveva cercato, senza successo, di far carriera nel mondo hollywoodiano come sceneggiatore. La sua esperienze trova eco nell'opera che solleva il sipario sul retroscena del mondo della produzione cinematografica: Fitzgerald coglie la cupidigia degli azionisti e dei direttori amministrativi, il servilismo dei dipendenti, l'esibizionismo delle star e la facilità con cui si entra e si esce dalla scena, per essere abbandonati lontani dai riflettori. Si contano innumerevoli appunti e commenti dell'autore, intenzionato dunque a scrivere un romanzo curato nei minimi dettagli e quanto più fedele al mondo reale. Nulla, invece, è stato ritrovato sull'epilogo e l'incompiuto lascia sempre spazio all'immaginazione del lettore e a tutte le possibili alternative.
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- Pagine: 160
- Data di uscita: 30-11-2017
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“They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.” There are very few writers whose careers you can trace through their work like F. Scott Fitzgerald. https://emmareadstoomuch.wordpress.co... The kind of charming immaturity of This Side of Paradise ; the polished, profound (if Leggi tutto
Case Study of Writing This actually isn’t a book, not in the traditional sense at least. You see, Fitzgerald never finished this novel. On December 21, 1940, at the age of 44, Fitzgerald died after writing approximately half of The Last Tycoon. Does this book just stop mid-sentence or mid-paragraph? Di Leggi tutto
I'm not precisely sure why this book effected me the way it did, but it certainly did. Fitzgerald finished writing the fifth chapter of this book before he had a heart attack and died. When you get to the end of this unfinished novel, you find the last word one of the greatest American writers ever
Oh, Fitzgerald, Fitzy, Scott, F. I kept putting this one off because I knew exactly how it would leave me, and I was exactly right. As much as I love Gatsby , as much as I love Tender is the Night and the short stories and the essays and every wastebasket scrap he’s written, this would have been
I recently reread The Great Gatsby in August with my book club and fell in love all over again with Fitzgerald’s writing. I was absolutely thrilled to have the opportunity to read Fitzgerald’s last novel. Set in 1930’s Hollywood, The Last Tycoon tells the tragic story of a young film producer Monroe Leggi tutto
It's a tragedy Fitzgerald died before finishing this because it's brimming with beautiful inspired writing and completely contradicts any notion that he was washed up as a writer. It appears it would have been more similar to Gatsby than Tender is the Night. Starr is an idealistic film director who
Reading F. Scott Fitzgerald’s penultimate novel, “Tender is the Night,” saddened me, because it showed a once-great man struggling—and failing—to write a novel worthy of his prodigious talent and storied past. Reading “The Last Tycoon” saddens me, because he found that novel, then suddenly died befor Leggi tutto
Originally, I had planned not to rate this book at all. After all, it's an unfinished novel. And yet...it's some of Fitzgerald's finest. Here on display is one of Fitzgerald's best literary tricks -- to have characters act in peculiar and implausible ways and to make them completely realistic and pl Leggi tutto
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