– Imagine having a baby, and everyday telling him hes the most amazing thing that ever was. Fifteen years later you will have a boy like Amory Blaine, the dorky antihero we learn to love as we follow him through school and early adulthood. His ego is enormous, and his confidence hard to rattle. Needless to say; his metaphorical fall from grace and his own inflated ego is rather harsh. Written when the author was only 23, its a semi-autobiographical book, reflecting on a generation of young men whose gods were dead, wars fought and ideals spread to the winds. They were raised in one world, and became men in another, leaving them unsure of their place in the world. Its a poignant and romantic story about the lost generation of the Jazz Age, beautifully written, despite being a little rough around the edges. Fitzgerald experiments with lots of different techniques, from play to poetry to well-known novel, but the disjointed style fits the mood and theme of the book. (And besides, Fitzgerald was talented enough to pull of just about everything.) A classic coming of age story, and a gem that deserves just as much praise as The Great Gatsby
This Side of Paradise
The wise writer, I think, writes for the youth of his own generation, the critic of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
Following the education and young life of Amory Blaine, from indulged only child to disillusioned war veteran, This Side of Paradise is a thinly veiled account of Fitzgerald's time as a Princeton undergraduate and an aspiring writer set against the turbulent background of adolescence, first loves, and the outbreak of World War I.
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The wise writer, I think, writes for the youth of his own generation, the critic of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
Following the education and young life of Amory Blaine, from indulged only child to disillusioned war veteran, This Side of Paradise is a thinly veiled account of Fitzgerald's time as a Princeton undergraduate and an aspiring writer set against the turbulent background of adolescence, first loves, and the outbreak of World War I. Amory moves through a dynamic whirl of exuberant youth, university escapades and adventures home and abroad as one of a new, restless American generation.
This Side of Paradise ensured immediate fame as well as notoriety for F. Scott Fitzgerald. Not only Fitzgerald's bestselling novel during his lifetime, it was also the work against which each of his later novels was measured. It is impossible to overestimate the importance of This Side of Paradise: without it, the writing career of one of the twentieth-century's most popular novelists would have been immeasurably different. Brilliant and original in style and structure,
brimful of literary experimentalism and fearless originality, it was a spectacular launching for Fitzgerald's career, and instantly stamped him as the bard of the Jazz Age.
Following the education and young life of Amory Blaine, from indulged only child to disillusioned war veteran, This Side of Paradise is a thinly veiled account of Fitzgerald's time as a Princeton undergraduate and an aspiring writer set against the turbulent background of adolescence, first loves, and the outbreak of World War I. Amory moves through a dynamic whirl of exuberant youth, university escapades and adventures home and abroad as one of a new, restless American generation.
This Side of Paradise ensured immediate fame as well as notoriety for F. Scott Fitzgerald. Not only Fitzgerald's bestselling novel during his lifetime, it was also the work against which each of his later novels was measured. It is impossible to overestimate the importance of This Side of Paradise: without it, the writing career of one of the twentieth-century's most popular novelists would have been immeasurably different. Brilliant and original in style and structure,
brimful of literary experimentalism and fearless originality, it was a spectacular launching for Fitzgerald's career, and instantly stamped him as the bard of the Jazz Age.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780198848110
- Utgave
- 2. utg.
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
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