房內牆壁上貼滿了一張張的退稿通知,加上他與澤爾妲.賽爾(Zelda Sayre)倆人之間的分分合合,在一連串幻滅打擊下,費茲傑羅開始了小說《塵世樂園》的第三次繕稿改寫。
故事描寫一位年輕人承受著肉慾與知性覺醒的煎熬,內容恰巧反映了費茲傑羅的寫作生涯;作品同時刻劃了第一次世界大戰後一個失落的世代,主人翁成年後驚覺眾神已死、戰禍四起,人與人之間的信任全然崩潰,然而放眼望去眾人卻只在乎爭名奪利唯利是圖。
本版收錄作者更正及費茲傑羅文學研究專家,美國南卡羅來納大學英語教授布魯科利先生作其作序。
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THE ACCOMPLISHED AND HEARTBREAKING FIRST NOVEL THAT CATAPULTED F. SCOTT FITZGERALD TO LITERARY FAME AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-THREE
Considered scandalous (and brilliant) when it was published in 1920, This Side of Paradise describes the intellectual, spiritual, and sexual education of young Amory Blaine in the tumultuous America of the early twentieth century. Highly sophisticated yet hopelessly romantic, Amory flounders from prep school to Princeton to glittering Jazz Age New York, confident that he is destined for greatness but unsure how to go about it. Fitzgerald's razor-sharp re-creation of a defiant, disillusioned generation "grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken" makes This Side of Paradise a timeless autobiographical novel of youth and alienation. It moves from tenderness to cynicism to hope with the grace and power that make Fitzgerald one of the greatest of American writers.
With an Introduction by Matthew J. Bruccoli
■史考特.費茲傑羅/F. Scott Fitzgerald(1896/09/24–1940/12/21)
費茲傑羅為知名美國小說家,其作品描繪刻劃爵士年代(Jazz Age)社會現象有其獨到之處。雖說生前未能有重大成就,費茲傑羅卻是當代公認廿世紀美國最偉大作家之一。
費茲傑羅咸認屬於一九二○年「失落的世代」(Lost Generation)的一員,生前發表四部長篇小說:1920年:《塵世樂園》(This Side of Paradise)、1922年:《美麗與毀滅》(The Beautiful and Damned)、1925年:《大亨小傳》(The Great Gatsby)、1934年:《夜未央》(Tender Is the Night)以及生前未能完成的遺腹作品,一九四一年《最後的大亨》(The Love of the Last Tycoon,原名 The Last Tycoon)。費茲傑羅另有四部短篇作品集,以及發表多達百六十四篇的雜誌短篇故事。
F. Scott Fitzgerald was considered the quintessential author of the Jazz Age. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, Fitzgerald attended Princeton University, where he began to write seriously. After joining the U.S. Army in 1917, Fitzgerald met Zelda Sayre, whom he later married. In 1920, Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise, transformed Fitzgerald overnight into a literary sensation. The Great Gatsby followed in 1925, although it was not as popular at the time as his second novel, The Beautiful and the Damned. Fitzgerald died in 1940 of a heart attack. He was forty-four years old.
作者:史考特.費茲傑羅/F. Scott Fitzgerald
叢書系列:SIGNET CLASSICS
規格:小平裝/Mass Market Paperback,10.8 x 17.1 x 2 cm,288頁
出版商:企鵝藍燈書屋/Penguin Random House
品牌:Signet Classics
出版日期:2006年11月07日
語言:英文
ISBN-13:978-0-451-53034-9
塵世樂園 新書。
This Side of Paradise. Condition: New.
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