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813.52 FIT 813.52 FIT Libro sui fantastici anni '20-'20 americani: stupenda descrizione di Scottt Fitzgerald, me lo sono immaginato vagae fra quelle feste e quei personaggi. Nick Carraway è la voce narrante del più famoso romanzo, in parte autobiografico, di Fitzgerald. Una grande storia d’amore, quella tra Gatsby e Daisy, è il pretesto per l’autore statunitense per raccontare da un diverso angolo visuale gli scintillii degli States. Gatsby è un giovane ragazzo americano che si innamora perdutamente di una ricca ereditiera americana, sposata con un giocatore di polo, Tom Buchanan e per conquistare il suo cuore si darà ad attività illecite; i guadagni gli consentiranno di gestire una villa dove darà feste faraoniche, in attesa di vedere tra gli ospiti la sua Daisy. E, quindi, la prima parte del romanzo è quasi un lungo swing di cui Nick proverà a cantare il ritmo; ma poi i nodi devono venire al pettine e, quindi, nella seconda parte il ritmo torna quello di un romanzo, per certi profili di maniera, in cui le storie assumono dimensioni normali. E la magia della grandezza di Gatsby si infrange nella normalità della vita a stelle e strisce e nella sua ipocrisia. Un romanzo appassionante, ma lontano, anni luce per i miei gusti, dalla qualità e dell’intensità di altri autori statunitensi, Steinbeck su tutti. Sarà un problema di contesti storici, o di momenti, ma insomma, a mio avviso, siamo lontani a distanze siderali dal capolavoro.
The Great Gatsby is a romance novel that written by American Author F.Scott Fitzgerald.This novel is talk about the New Yorker in 1900s.The Great Gatsby is a classic piece of American fiction. It is a novel full of triumph and tragedy.Nick Carraway is the narrator, or storyteller, of The Great Gatsby, but he is not the story's protagonist, or main character. Instead, Jay Gatsby is the protagonist of the novel that bears his name. Tom Buchanan is the book's antagonist, opposing Gatsby's attempts to get what he wants: Tom's wife Daisy. The weakness of this book is they using the classic languange and a little difficult to understand.The weakness also about Gatsby affection to Daisy,He spends that money on lavish parties in the hopes that she will show up.When she finally spends time with him, for the first time in many years, he naively believes that she will leave Tom for him but,unfortunately she is not. However,the strength of this book is the writer are using the unique title so the reader are feel sympathy and curious about it, also the characteristic about Jay Gatsby that teach the reader many lesson. To conclude,this book is the very recommended book,especially High School students because Fitzgerald’s novel is a portal to the savage heart of the human spirit, and wonders at our enormous capacity to dream, to imagine, to hope and to persevere. The great Gatsby is truly a romance book like no other.F.SCOTT.Switzgerald describing about the life of New Yorker in 1900s.This novel is very popular many students if high school are required by their teachers to read this book.The narrator of The Great Gatsby is a young man from Minnesota named Nick Carraway. He not only narrates the story but casts himself as the book’s author.As ive read about this book,Gatsby’s personality was nothing short of “gorgeous.” moreover,the weakness about this book is hard to understand if u are not really pay attention on it.this novel is about a contradiction,Gatsby's idealism makes him blind.He doesn't see that Daisy can't have love and money, just money. Gatsby can't turn back time.He even doesn't see death coming toward him. However,the strength of this book something quite different from others,it is the charm and beauty of writing,has many important meanings that should be learned early on in life. To conclude,what i can say is don't be too obsessed just because you have so much money,money ain't last forever.but overall its a magnificent,fantastically, entertaining and enthralling story. "The Great Gatsby" is in form no more than a glorified anecdote, and not too probable at that What gives the story distinction is something quite different from the management of the action or the handling of the characters; it is the charm and beauty of the writing. I find Gatsby aesthetically overrated, psychologically vacant, and morally complacent; I think we kid ourselves about the lessons it contains. None of this would matter much to me if Gatsby were not also sacrosanct. There is the convoluted moral logic, simultaneously Romantic and Machiavellian, by which the most epically crooked character in the book is the one we are commanded to admire. There’s the command itself: the controlling need to tell us what to think, both in and about the book. There’s the blanket embrace of that great American delusion by which wealth, poverty, and class itself stem from private virtue and vice. There’s Fitzgerald’s unthinking commitment to a gender order so archaic as to be Premodern: corrupt woman occasioning the fall of man. There is, relatedly, the travesty of his female characters—single parenthesis every one, thoughtless and thin. (Don’t talk to me about the standards of his time; the man hell-bent on being the voice of his generation was a contemporary of Dorothy Parker, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf, not to mention the great groundswell of activists who achieved the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Yet here he is in A Short Autobiography: “Women learn best not from books or from their own dreams but from reality and from contact with first-class men.”) It is an impressive accomplishment. And yet, apart from the restrained, intelligent, beautifully constructed opening pages and a few stray passages thereafter—a melancholy twilight walk in Manhattan; some billowing curtains settling into place at the closing of a drawing-room door—Gatsby as a literary creation leaves me cold. Like one of those manicured European parks patrolled on all sides by officious gendarmes, it is pleasant to look at, but you will not find any people inside. Indeed, The Great Gatsby is less involved with human emotion than any book of comparable fame I can think of. None of its characters are likable. None of them are even dislikable, though nearly all of them are despicable. They function here only as types, walking through the pages of the book like kids in a school play who wear sashes telling the audience what they represent: OLD MONEY, THE AMERICAN DREAM, ORGANIZED CRIME. 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After the Great War, the mysterious Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, pursues wealth, riches and the lady he lost to another man with stoic determination. He buys a mansion across from her house and throws lavish parties to entice her. When Gatsby finally does reunite with Daisy Buchanan, tragic events are set in motion. Told through the eyes of his detached and omnipresent neighbour and friend, Nick Carraway, Fitzgerald's succinct and powerful prose hints at the destruction and tragedy that awaits. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Questo resta un altro libro di cui ho sicuramente ho apprezzato di più i film (sia quello del 1974 che quello del 2013).
Io e Fitzgerald abbiamo poco feeling. Forse scrive di un ambiente troppo 'localizzato' nel tempo e nello spazio perché io riesca a immaginarlo appieno (faccio fatica a comprendere la cultura americana oggi, figurarsi quella degli anni venti!). Al contempo scrive di persone così vacue, così deprimenti, così... anonime sotto certi aspetti, che non riescono a rendere vivo il romanzo.
Non riesco a percepire quell'alchimia che mi ha trasmesso, ad esempio, Steinback, dove, pur con tutte le differenze di epoca e ambientazione, era molto più chiaro cosa facesse muovere i personaggi.
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I'm not sure why there is no alchemy between Fitzgerald's novels and me (so far, I preferred his short stories), but this is one of the books for which I find the movies are far superior.
It's really a struggle for me to establish any sort of connection with his characters, as empty and vacuous as they come across, so I cannot feel sympathy or sadness or anything about their plight. I realize that this is one of the points in the story, the emptiness of these people life's, but the indifference I felt about their fate made it somewhat moot. (