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Pileques
Francis Scott Fitzgerald aproveitou à beça os chamados “anos loucos”: festas, viagens e muita bebedeira. Mas a paixão por drinques, que no início assegurava um comportamento mais leve em festas e encontros entre os literatos da época, desandaria para um brutal alcoolismo. Tentando se livrar do vício ao mesmo tempo em que procurava evocar os dias ébrios de sua vida, Fitzgerald deixou uma série de textos — ensaios, cartas e aforismos — em que o pileque é o personagem maior. São textos que oscilam entre a graça (na característica prosa elegante do autor), o anedótico e um registro mais sombrio. “Primeiro você toma um drinque, então um drinque toma um drinque, e aí o drinque toma você”, anotou o escritor de forma irônica e acurada.
Pileques, uma seleção retirada de “O colapso nervoso” e outros textos de Fitzgerald, é uma elegante e evocativa crônica da paixão de um homem pelos estados alterados da mente provocados por bebidas alcoólicas. Também o testemunho de uma era que, à distância de quase um século, parece dotada de um charme inescapável.
Pileques, uma seleção retirada de “O colapso nervoso” e outros textos de Fitzgerald, é uma elegante e evocativa crônica da paixão de um homem pelos estados alterados da mente provocados por bebidas alcoólicas. Também o testemunho de uma era que, à distância de quase um século, parece dotada de um charme inescapável.
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112 pages, Paperback
First published August 22, 2013
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
2,103 books25.6k followersFrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald, widely known simply as Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age, a term he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories. Although he achieved temporary popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald received critical acclaim only after his death and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
Born into a middle-class family in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Fitzgerald was raised primarily in New York state. He attended Princeton University where he befriended future literary critic Edmund Wilson. Owing to a failed romantic relationship with Chicago socialite Ginevra King, he dropped out in 1917 to join the United States Army during World War I. While stationed in Alabama, he met Zelda Sayre, a Southern debutante who belonged to Montgomery's exclusive country-club set. Although she initially rejected Fitzgerald's marriage proposal due to his lack of financial prospects, Zelda agreed to marry him after he published the commercially successful This Side of Paradise (1920). The novel became a cultural sensation and cemented his reputation as one of the eminent writers of the decade.
His second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), propelled him further into the cultural elite. To maintain his affluent lifestyle, he wrote numerous stories for popular magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's Weekly, and Esquire. During this period, Fitzgerald frequented Europe, where he befriended modernist writers and artists of the "Lost Generation" expatriate community, including Ernest Hemingway. His third novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), received generally favorable reviews but was a commercial failure, selling fewer than 23,000 copies in its first year. Despite its lackluster debut, The Great Gatsby is now hailed by some literary critics as the "Great American Novel". Following the deterioration of his wife's mental health and her placement in a mental institute for schizophrenia, Fitzgerald completed his final novel, Tender Is the Night (1934).
Struggling financially because of the declining popularity of his works during the Great Depression, Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood, where he embarked upon an unsuccessful career as a screenwriter. While living in Hollywood, he cohabited with columnist Sheilah Graham, his final companion before his death. After a long struggle with alcoholism, he attained sobriety only to die of a heart attack in 1940, at 44. His friend Edmund Wilson edited and published an unfinished fifth novel, The Last Tycoon (1941), after Fitzgerald's death. In 1993, a new edition was published as The Love of the Last Tycoon, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli.
Born into a middle-class family in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Fitzgerald was raised primarily in New York state. He attended Princeton University where he befriended future literary critic Edmund Wilson. Owing to a failed romantic relationship with Chicago socialite Ginevra King, he dropped out in 1917 to join the United States Army during World War I. While stationed in Alabama, he met Zelda Sayre, a Southern debutante who belonged to Montgomery's exclusive country-club set. Although she initially rejected Fitzgerald's marriage proposal due to his lack of financial prospects, Zelda agreed to marry him after he published the commercially successful This Side of Paradise (1920). The novel became a cultural sensation and cemented his reputation as one of the eminent writers of the decade.
His second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), propelled him further into the cultural elite. To maintain his affluent lifestyle, he wrote numerous stories for popular magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's Weekly, and Esquire. During this period, Fitzgerald frequented Europe, where he befriended modernist writers and artists of the "Lost Generation" expatriate community, including Ernest Hemingway. His third novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), received generally favorable reviews but was a commercial failure, selling fewer than 23,000 copies in its first year. Despite its lackluster debut, The Great Gatsby is now hailed by some literary critics as the "Great American Novel". Following the deterioration of his wife's mental health and her placement in a mental institute for schizophrenia, Fitzgerald completed his final novel, Tender Is the Night (1934).
Struggling financially because of the declining popularity of his works during the Great Depression, Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood, where he embarked upon an unsuccessful career as a screenwriter. While living in Hollywood, he cohabited with columnist Sheilah Graham, his final companion before his death. After a long struggle with alcoholism, he attained sobriety only to die of a heart attack in 1940, at 44. His friend Edmund Wilson edited and published an unfinished fifth novel, The Last Tycoon (1941), after Fitzgerald's death. In 1993, a new edition was published as The Love of the Last Tycoon, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli.
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December 26, 2022finalizei hoje, meu primeiro aqui no app. acho que não vou ficar dando estrelinhas nos livros, nem fazendo resenha. não quero detalhar COISAS aqui, só keep track of minhas leituras. mas se quiser, eu vou. mt bom fitzgerald te amo
June 4, 2015
Coletânea de textos, cartas e anotações de um dos maiores autores do século XX, que apesar de muitas vezes girarem em torno de doses (industriais) de álcool, também trás a melancolia e os conflitos do autor que já não consegue enxergar a vida com tanto glamour. Só não gostei muito da parte em que ele descreve vários hotéis por onde passou, achei meio cansativo. Indicado pra quem quer conhecer de um jeito um pouco mais pessoal esse grande figura da literatura ;)
"Depois bebi durante muitos anos, e aí morri."
"Depois bebi durante muitos anos, e aí morri."
October 21, 2015
Fitzgerald só foi ruim em Grande Gatsby. Juro.
Que delícia de livro! =)
Que delícia de livro! =)
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