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THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMMED - FRANCIS SCOTT FITZGERALD
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THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMMED
The Beautiful and Damned is the story of Anthony Patch and his wife, Gloria. Harvard-educated and an aspiring aesthete, Patch is waiting for his inheritance upon his grandfather's death. His reckless marriage to Gloria is fueled by alcohol and destroyed by greed. The Patches race through a series of alcohol-induced fiascoes----first in hilarity, then in despair. The Beautiful and Damned, a devastating portrait of the nouveaux riches, New York nightlife, reckless ambition, and squandered talent, was published in 1922 on the heels of Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise. It signaled his maturity as a storyteller and confirmed his enormous talent as a novelist.
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
The American author Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald 1896-1940 , a legendary figure of the 1920s, was a scrupulous artist, a graceful stylist, and an exceptional craftsman. His tragic life was an ironic analog to his romantic art.
On Sept. 24, 1896, F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minn. His family was Irish Catholic, his mother's side wealthy. The family lived for some years in Buffalo and Syracuse; but in 1908, when Scott's father lost his job, they returned to St. Paul. For the most part, Scott was privately educated; he attended Newman School in Hackensack, N.J., from 1911 to 1913.
Fitzgerald enrolled at Princeton University in 1913 and struck up enduring friendships with Edmund Wilson and John Peale Bishop. Because of ill health and low grades, he left college in 1915. He returned to Princeton in 1916 but left a year later without a degree and joined the Army with a second lieutenant's commission. Stationed in Alabama in 1918, he met Zelda Sayre, then 18 years old; he would marry her a few years later. After his Army discharge he took an advertising job briefly. Back home in St. Paul, he finished his first novel, This Side of Paradise, which was accepted by Scribner's in 1919, and that same year he had remarkable success placing nine short stories in leading commercial journals.
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FITZGERALD FRANCIS SCOTT
24 de septiembre de 1896, Saint Paul - 21 de diciembre de 1940, Hollywood.
Fitzgerald fue un novelista y escritor de relatos estadounidense, aclamado principalmente por su obra maestra El gran Gatsby. En 1920 publicó su primera novela: A este lado del paraíso, cuyo éxito le convirtió en la joven gran promesa dela literatura norteamericana.
Con el dinero obtenido por esa novela se casó con Zelda Sayre, una joven de carácter exuberante e hija de un juez, y juntos se trasladaron a Francia. Su matrimonio fue una sucesión de peleas, borracheras e infidelidades. Se perjudicaban recíprocamente: ella acabó encerrada debido a sus problemas mentales, él terriblemente alcoholizado. Algunos expertos creen que Zelda inspiró la trama de El Gran Gatsby, otros aseguran que la musa fue Ginevra King, una joven que había roto el corazón de Fitzgerald cuando era más joven. Él mismo declaró que "La idea entera de Gatsby versa en torno a la injusticia que supone que un hombre joven y pobre no pueda casarse con una chica adinerada". En cualquier caso, independientemente de cuál fue la inspiración, el resultado es una de las más grandes novelas del siglo XX.
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