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Readers in that sizeable group of people who think The Great Gatsby is the Great American Novel will be delighted with Robbins's subtle, brainy and immensely touching new reading. There have been audio versions of Gatsby before this-by Alexander Scourby and Christopher Reeve, to name two-but actor/director Robbins brings a fresh and bracing vision that makes the story gleam. From the jaunty irony of the title page quote ("Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!") to the poetry of Fitzgerald's ending about "the dark fields of the republic" and "boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past," Robbins conjures up a sublime portrait of a lost world. And as a bonus, the excellent audio actor Robert Sean Leonard reads a selection of Fitzgerald's letters to editors, agents and friends which focus on the writing and selling of the novel. Listeners will revel in learning random factoids, e.g., in 1924, Scott and Zelda were living in a Rome hotel that cost just over $500 a month, and he was respectfully suggesting that his agent Harold Ober ask $15,000 from Liberty magazine for the serial rights to Gatsby.
內容簡介
Fitzgerald's glittering Jazz Age masterpiece.
Jay Gatsby is a self-made man, famed for his decadent champagne-drenched parties. Despite being surrounded by Long Island's bright and beautiful, Gatsby longs only for Daisy Buchanan. In shimmering prose, Fitzgerald shows Gatsby pursue his dream to its tragic conclusion. The Great Gatsby is an elegiac and exquisite portrait of the American Dream.
《瞭不起的蓋茨比》是美國作傢F.S.菲茨傑拉德1925年所寫的一部以20世紀20年代的紐約市及長島為背景的短篇小說,小說的背景被設定在現代化的美國社會中上階層的白人圈內,通過卡洛維的敘述展開。錶現瞭“美國夢”的幻滅。這部小說譴責以湯姆為代錶的美國特權階級自私專橫,為所欲為,以同情的態度描寫瞭蓋茨比的悲劇,並指齣他的悲劇來自他對生活和愛情的幻想,對上層社會人物缺乏認識。
作者簡介
F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of the major American writers of the twentieth century -- a figure whose life and works embodied powerful myths about our national dreams and aspirations. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, attended Princeton University, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. He left us one sure masterpiece, The Great Gatsby; a near-masterpiece, Tender Is the Night; and a gathering of stories and essays that together capture the essence of the American experience. His writings are insightful and stylistically brilliant; today he is admired both as a social chronicler and a remarkably gifted artist.
F. Scott Fitzgerald 弗·斯科特·菲茨傑拉德,美國小說傢。他年輕時試寫過劇本。讀完高中後考入普林斯頓大學。1920年齣版瞭長篇小說《人間天堂》,從此齣瞭名,小說齣版後他與澤爾達結婚。婚後攜妻寄居巴黎,結識瞭安德遜、海明威等多位美國作傢。1925年《瞭不起的蓋茨比》問世,奠定瞭他在現代美國文學史上的地位,成瞭20年代“爵士時代”的發言人和“迷惘的一代”的代錶作傢之一。
作品:
劇本:《美女和被詛咒的人》、《瞭不起的蓋茨比》、《生死同心》、《女人》、《亂世佳人》、《居裏夫人》、 《夜色溫柔》 、《我最後一次見到巴黎》、《綺夢初艷》等。
長篇小說:《人間天堂》(1920)、《美麗與毀滅》(1922)、《瞭不起的蓋茨比》(1925)、《夜色溫柔》(1934)、《最後一個大亨》(1941)等。
短篇小說集:《飛女郎與哲學傢》(1920)、《爵士時代的故事》(1922)、《那些憂傷的年輕人》(1926)、《早晨的起床號》(1935)等。
文集:My Lost City(暫無中文譯名)收錄名篇《崩潰》。
精彩書評
"One of the greatest works of American literature...a timeless evocation of the allure, corruption and carelessness of wealth."
—The Times
"It is a marvellously suggestive novel... a parable of modern America, and by extension of modern life."
—A. N. Wilson, Daily Telegraph
"The first and greatest modern novel, it has beautiful women, lavish parties, romance, betrayal and murder woven together in an intricately structured plot. A prescient comment on the dying days of a gilded age that is brilliant entertainment with a very eloquent insight."
—Mirror
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