An edition of The Great Gatsby (1920)

Il grande Gatsby

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An edition of The Great Gatsby (1920)

Il grande Gatsby

  • 3.97 ·
  • 150 Ratings
  • 1820 Want to read
  • 135 Currently reading
  • 306 Have read

L’essenzialità, la finezza descrittiva e la nitidezza del procedimento narrativo (la storia è raccontata attraverso il punto di vista di Nick, vicino e amico di Gatsby), la creazione sapiente di personaggi indimenticabili hanno fatto ormai di questo romanzo un punto fermo, un “classico moderno”. Lo scenario è quello dei frenetici anni Venti, di cui Fitzgerald stesso e la moglie Zelda furono favolosi protagonisti tra New York, Parigi e la Costa Azzurra. Attraverso le sue feste brillanti e stravaganti, il lusso e la mondanità di cui si circonda, il «grande Gatsby», il misterioso, affascinante e inquieto protagonista, non mira tuttavia che a ritrovare l’amore di Daisy. Ma è possibile ricatturare il passato? Al di là della romantica suggestione, il sogno di Gatsby diventa emblema di un sogno di assolutezza, come l’originario “sogno americano” di un Mondo Nuovo, che, come ogni sogno di purezza astratta, la realtà frantuma e disperde. Gatsby e Daisy hanno avuto, sul grande schermo, i volti di Robert Redford e Mia Farrow nel film del 1974 (regia di Jack Clayton) e di Leonardo DiCaprio e Carey Mulligan in quello del 2013 (regia di Baz Luhrmann).

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Published in
Rome, Italy
Copyright Date
2011
Translation Of
The Great Gatsby
Translated From
English

Contributors

Introduction
Walter Mauro
Translator
Bruno Armando

The Physical Object

Format
Epub

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26495296M
ISBN 10
8854129046
ISBN 13
9788854129047
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B0062ZKN2M
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Work Description

Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.

"There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life.... It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again."

It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous entertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan – a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.

It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.

--first edition jacket



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