O grande Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Roberto Muggiati (Translator)

Um dos maiores clássicos da literatura mundial, O grande Gatsby ganha uma edição comemorativa dos 100 anos da publicação com projeto gráfico do premiado designer Mateus Valadares. Inclui textos extras de F. Scott Fitzgerald e do crítico literário e musical Arthur Nestrovski.


 


Em homenagem aos 100 anos de publicação de O grande Gatsby, clássico da literatura universal, diversas vezes adaptado para o cinema, a Editora José Olympio apresenta esta edição comemorativa. Com tradução de Roberto Muggiati, este volume reúne texto de apresentação de Arthur Nestrovski e o ensaio “Ecos da Era do Jazz”, em que o próprio F. Scott Fitzgerald comenta o entusiasmo e as pulsões dos anos 1920.


Nessa obra-prima, a misteriosa vida de Jay Gatsby é um retrato glamouroso e fascinante dos Estados Unidos na década de 1920, opulente, extravagante, rápido e feroz. Nick Carraway é o narrador que acompanha de perto os passos de Gatsby e descobre, junto dos leitores, os segredos do amigo, bem como os perigos que o cercam e a paixão que o consome.


Uma narrativa elegante e melancólica, que expõe a sombra do sonho americano, a corrupção da riqueza, a fragilidade e superficialidade das relações humanas. Com personagens que já fazem parte do imaginário cultural, como Jay Gatsby, Daisy e Tom Buchanan, o livro já foi adaptado inúmeras vezes para o cinema, tendo a última montagem o ator, ganhador do Oscar, Leonardo di Caprio no papel principal. Um clássico mundial, em uma belíssima edição comemorativa digna de uma festa da Era do Jazz.


 


“Quase um século depois, nós ainda estamos lendo Gatsby” - The New York Times, 2020.


“O seu romance me interessou e me animou mais do que qualquer outro que tenha lido, seja dos Estados Unidos ou da Inglaterra, em muitos anos.” - carta de T. S. Eliot a F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925.


“Um livro único, trata-se de uma história mística e glamourosa dos dias atuais.” - The New York Times, 1925.


“Scott Fitzgerald é o melhor entre todos” - Times, 1925.


“Fitzgerald ainda será assunto quando outros forem esquecidos” - Gertrude Stein.]


“O grande Gatsby é, de muitas maneiras, uma espécie de Romeu e Julieta, ainda que seja muito mais que uma história de amor” - The Guardian, 2013.

251 pages, Kindle Edition

About the author

Francis 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.