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Der große Gatsby. Schmuckausgabe mit Kupferprägung
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
2,323 books25.5k 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 8, 2024
Wie war das? Don’t judge a book by its cover?
Der Einband war für mich das Beste an dem Ganzen. Der Inhalt war ernüchternd.
Ein Roman über einen Haufen unsympathischer, dekadenter Schwätzer, von denen ich keinen einzigen auch nur ein bisschen mögen konnte. Und ich brauche doch immer wenigstens eine Person in einem Buch, an die ich mich emotional binden kann. 😅
Die Beschreibungen der oberflächlichen Ausschweifungen sind so detailreich, dass ich davon so abgestoßen war, als hätte ich selbst an sämtlichen Lästereien, sämtlichem Smalltalk und Amüsement teilhaben müssen. Welch grauenvolle Vorstellung. Zum Glück bleibt als Moral, dass man auch mit noch so viel Vermögen das Glück nicht kaufen kann.
Aber vermutlich ist das grade die große Kunst des Autors, dass man das alles so furchtbar findet. 🫣
Der Einband war für mich das Beste an dem Ganzen. Der Inhalt war ernüchternd.
Ein Roman über einen Haufen unsympathischer, dekadenter Schwätzer, von denen ich keinen einzigen auch nur ein bisschen mögen konnte. Und ich brauche doch immer wenigstens eine Person in einem Buch, an die ich mich emotional binden kann. 😅
Die Beschreibungen der oberflächlichen Ausschweifungen sind so detailreich, dass ich davon so abgestoßen war, als hätte ich selbst an sämtlichen Lästereien, sämtlichem Smalltalk und Amüsement teilhaben müssen. Welch grauenvolle Vorstellung. Zum Glück bleibt als Moral, dass man auch mit noch so viel Vermögen das Glück nicht kaufen kann.
Aber vermutlich ist das grade die große Kunst des Autors, dass man das alles so furchtbar findet. 🫣
October 2, 2024
Einfacher Wahnsinn dieses Buch.
October 15, 2024
3,5 ☆
Eine tragische Geschichte mit Jay Gatsby als Hauptakteur, der den amerikanischen Traum lebt und an die romantische Liebe glaubt, diese aber schmerzhaft scheitert.
Ich mochte den Flair der goldenen zwanziger in New York. Gatsby tat mir leid, da seine Liebe an die er glaubte und alles dafür getan hat, nicht so erwidert wurde wie er dachte und durch Missverständnisse fatal endete.
Daisy und sämtliche andere Protagonisten waren mir eher unsympathisch und ich konnte Gatsby auch nicht ganz verstehen warum er Daisy so toll fand.
Auch die Dekadenz der Reichen wurde gut dargestellt.
Die Geschichte wird nicht aus Gatsby's Sicht erzählt, was ich spannend fand aber leider blieb Gatsby dadurch auch sehr undurchsichtig.
Insgesamt ein interessante Lektüre!
Eine tragische Geschichte mit Jay Gatsby als Hauptakteur, der den amerikanischen Traum lebt und an die romantische Liebe glaubt, diese aber schmerzhaft scheitert.
Ich mochte den Flair der goldenen zwanziger in New York. Gatsby tat mir leid, da seine Liebe an die er glaubte und alles dafür getan hat, nicht so erwidert wurde wie er dachte und durch Missverständnisse fatal endete.
Daisy und sämtliche andere Protagonisten waren mir eher unsympathisch und ich konnte Gatsby auch nicht ganz verstehen warum er Daisy so toll fand.
Auch die Dekadenz der Reichen wurde gut dargestellt.
Die Geschichte wird nicht aus Gatsby's Sicht erzählt, was ich spannend fand aber leider blieb Gatsby dadurch auch sehr undurchsichtig.
Insgesamt ein interessante Lektüre!
April 28, 2025
nicht fertig gelesen
October 16, 2025
4,5 ✨ hat a bissi bruacht bis ih drinnen war, aber a tolles Buch mit ma schönen Schreibstil.
November 6, 2025
Er tut alles für ihre Liebe, zum Schluss leider auch sterben 🥲
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