Il crollo

The rating isn't really a reflection of Fitzgerald but more of the editing. This book has 3 main sections (there are others but these are the main three): 1) Fitzgerald's essays 2) Fitzgerald's Notebook 3)Letters from Fitzgerald In the first section, the highlight is a series of three essays in which Fit Leggi tutto

This shows just how far Fitzgerald descended...his is a story of wasted talent...BUT (and this is what I like to focus on) it is also a story of how he began a slow, painstaking ascent...He realized how far he had fallen, and he decided to make the long, hard climb back up...Too bad his heart simply Leggi tutto

Salvare o essere salvato, mai niente di meno. La vita di uno dei più grandi scrittori americani ha avuto degli alti e bassi, un po' come le vite di tutti. Un forte momento di depressione ha spinto Fitzgerald a perdere se stesso dopo aver perso tutto il resto. Sto parlando del crollo morale di una per Leggi tutto

“Così continuiamo a remare, barche contro corrente, risospinti senza posa nel passato”(Jay Gatsby/Nick Carraway) Il Grande Gatsby, Baz Luhrmann, il Party L’età del jazz è terminata. Niente più feste sfarzose, balli sfrenati, bella vita, belle donne/uomini, sesso liberato, alcol e droghe. I ragazzi Leggi tutto

There's some beautiful writing here, especially in the first portion of the book, which is comprised of several essays by FSF. (Also, there's a wonderful poem by Edmund Wilson (I didn't know he wrote poetry) at the front of the book.) In the essays, FSF, while admitting that more distance was needed Leggi tutto

I couldn't agree more with the reviewer who observed she had not expected to care so much for the author. I started reading this volume as a long time but only luke-warm reader of Fitzgerald. This painful memoir of his depression and recovery was initially intellectually engaging but to my amazement Leggi tutto