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L'étrange histoire de Benjamin Button suivi de La lie du bonheur
'"Bon sang!" s’exclama-t-il tout haut. Le processus se poursuivait. Il n’y avait pas le moindre doute : il avait à présent l’apparence d’un homme de trente ans. Loin d’être ravi, il était embarrassé : il rajeunissait. Il avait espéré jusque-là que, une fois atteint l’âge physique
correspondant au nombre de ses années, le phénomène absurde qui avait marqué sa naissance cesserait d’opérer. Il frissonna. Son destin lui paraissait terrible, incroyable.'
Deux Contes de l’âge du jazz – dont la célèbre 'histoire de Benjamin Button' – par la plume la plus flamboyante et fêlée de la Génération perdue.
correspondant au nombre de ses années, le phénomène absurde qui avait marqué sa naissance cesserait d’opérer. Il frissonna. Son destin lui paraissait terrible, incroyable.'
Deux Contes de l’âge du jazz – dont la célèbre 'histoire de Benjamin Button' – par la plume la plus flamboyante et fêlée de la Génération perdue.
95 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 15, 2019
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
2,334 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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January 6, 2021
Concernant l'étrange histoire de Benjamin Button :
Rares sont les fois où je préfère un film à un livre...mais force est de constater que je n'ai pas trouvé le livre de Fitzgerald à la hauteur du film de Fincher ! En effet, l'histoire est très courte, et qui plus est racontée d'un point de vue externe, ce qui ne permet pas réellement de rentrer dans la tête du personnage et de percevoir ses émotions. L'histoire est très linéaire, et manque réellement de profondeur, ce qui est très dommage car l'histoire est intéressante. Grosse déception pour moi !
Concernant désormais l'autre nouvelle de Fitzgerald, La lie du bonheur, récit d'un jeune couple amoureux face à la maladie : j'ai largement préféré cette nouvelle ! Courte aussi, mais légère, simple et précise.
Malgré cette déception, je retiens de ces deux nouvelles la belle écriture de Fitzgerald, qui me donne tout de même envie de découvrir ses œuvres emblématiques, telles que Gatsby le Magnifique et Tendre est la nuit.
Rares sont les fois où je préfère un film à un livre...mais force est de constater que je n'ai pas trouvé le livre de Fitzgerald à la hauteur du film de Fincher ! En effet, l'histoire est très courte, et qui plus est racontée d'un point de vue externe, ce qui ne permet pas réellement de rentrer dans la tête du personnage et de percevoir ses émotions. L'histoire est très linéaire, et manque réellement de profondeur, ce qui est très dommage car l'histoire est intéressante. Grosse déception pour moi !
Concernant désormais l'autre nouvelle de Fitzgerald, La lie du bonheur, récit d'un jeune couple amoureux face à la maladie : j'ai largement préféré cette nouvelle ! Courte aussi, mais légère, simple et précise.
Malgré cette déception, je retiens de ces deux nouvelles la belle écriture de Fitzgerald, qui me donne tout de même envie de découvrir ses œuvres emblématiques, telles que Gatsby le Magnifique et Tendre est la nuit.
September 24, 2021
Probablement que l'histoire est bonne en soi, mais pour avoir vu le film qui s'en inspire avant, le film étant l'un de mes préférés, je ne pouvais qu'être déçue.
November 19, 2021
Étant une grande fan du film j’ai vraiment apprécié la première histoire ! Mais la deuxième histoire m’a plus d’avantage… triste mais belle.
May 25, 2024
Button 5/5
La lie du bonheur 2/5
La lie du bonheur 2/5
July 23, 2025
Un livre très drôle, faut que je vois le film parce que l’adaptation cinématographique doit être très drôle. J’ai pas trouvé le moral ou le sens intellectuel dedans mais à réfléchir
September 24, 2025
Bien, écriture très datée et distante, très très loin derrière Gatsby, probablement mieux en film. La lie du bonheur est perché mais sympa sur l’amour inconditionnel d’un couple
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