Title : The Great Gatsby - Francis Scott Fitzgerald - Book
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In 1920s Long Island, the party is noisy and the drinking plentiful. Especially at Jay Gatsby's. An adventurer with a dark past, an artist remarkable for his ability to create a character from scratch, Gatsby, a solar figure in his radiance, lunar in the mystery he generates, is renowned for the parties he hosts at his sumptuous estate. The opulence, as well as the superficiality of the conversations and human relationships, seem to have no limits. This is why the illusion can only be fleeting. Among the guests of this strange host is Nick Carraway, a lucid observer who alone manages to detect a certain grandeur in Gatsby, the embodiment of multiple aborted promises.
Advanced level
Francis Scott Fitzgerald entered Princeton University in 1913. Frustrated by not being athletic, brilliant, or wealthy, he devoted his energies to writing musicals. His encounter with the beautiful and eccentric Zelda Sayre would turn his life upside down. In 1920, he achieved success with The Other Side of Paradise. With Zelda, he would embody the "Jazz Age." The couple moved to Paris, like their friend Ernest Hemingway. These years were years of drinking, chaos, and easy money. Fitzgerald wrote The Happy and the Damned, expressing his anxieties. He and his wife then moved to Cap d'Antibes, where they had a daughter, but Zelda's mental health was already deteriorating. It was in France that Fitzgerald completed The Great Gatsby, whose film adaptations would allow him to continue leading an easy life. During the Depression of 1929, the couple was on the French Riviera. Fitzgerald drank increasingly heavily, and Zelda was eventually interned in Switzerland. Unable to sell enough books, Fitzgerald embarked on the lucrative but hated business of writing screenplays for Hollywood. In 1939, he began The Last Tycoon but drank more than ever. He died in 1940 of a heart attack, leaving his novel unfinished.
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