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Nel 1925 Fitzgerald pubblica Il Grande Gatsby, la storia di “un sogno incorruttibile”. Nick, un giovane agente di cambio, racconta di Gatsby, il suo ricchissimo e misterioso vicino (diventato tale, attraverso poco limpide operazioni, ma ciò è lasciato intendere solo come in un alone di sospetto, che fa nascere le più strane dicerie su di lui). Questi offre fastosi ricevimenti nel suo mastodontico palazzo: ai quali partecipa appena, chiuso in una sua segreta angoscia. In realtà, il “grande” Gatsby non mira che a ritrovare l’amore di Daisy. La rivede e quasi la riconquista. Ma si può far ritornare il passato, ”si può ripetere il passato?”
A Daisy, immersa nel tepore protettivo di una vita resa facile dal denaro e dai confort, quell’amore non riesce tuttavia a giungere nella sua “incorruttibile” autenticità e il “sogno” di Gatsby, metafora di un più generale “sogno americano”, inesorabilmente, s’infrange al contatto con la dura realtà.
La fantasia fervida e delicata, lo stile sapientemente costruito, la finissima capacità di evocazione di un ambiente e di un’atmosfera, fanno de Il Grande Gatsby un classico moderno e di Fitzgerald, oltre che una delle personalità più rappresentative di un costume e di un’epoca, una figura di primo piano nella narrativa americana. Le sue opere sono la più compiuta espressione di quell’atteggiamento di ribellione anticonformista che fu propria dei giovani negli tra il “20 e il “30 e lo scrittore americano diventò ben presto l’eroe incontrastato della “generazione perduta”, dell’epoca del proibizionismo, della prosperità fittizia e della ”età del jazz”.
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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.
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