Beautiful and damned: Francis Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Fitzgerald, who announced the world about the beginning of the new century – the “century Jazz”, stands a mansion in modern American classics. The flesh from the flesh of that legendary era, he reflected it brighter and most impartial. Ernest Hemingway wrote about him: “His talent was as natural as a pollen pattern on the wings of a butterfly.” His novel “The Great Gatsby” (“The first step forward made by American literature since the time of Henry James”, according to T. S. Eliot), influenced the formation of a new world literary tradition and was repeatedly filmed, and last time in 2013 (the director of the Baza Lurman, in the leading role of Leonardo Dicaprio). But another classic novel of the master, “Beautiful and Cursed”, a kind of testing ground in front of the “Great Gatsby”, is known to the Russian reader much worse – he was first translated only at the very end of the 20th century and was almost not reprinted. This annoying omission must be fixed. So, get acquainted with the new heroes of the “roaring twenties” – by the way …

Author
Fitzgerald Francis Scott
Translator
Shchennikov Vladimir
Publisher
ABC, 2014
Series
Classic (soft)