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

Il grande Gatsby ovvero l'età del jazz: luci, party, belle auto e vestiti da cocktail, ma dietro la tenerezza della notte si cela la sua oscurità, la sua durezza, il senso di solitudine con il quale può strangolare anche la vita più promettente. Il giovane Nick Carraway, voce narrante del romanzo, si trasferisce a New York nell'estate del 1922. Affitta una casa nella prestigiosa e sognante Long Island, brulicante di nuovi ricchi disperatamente impegnati a festeggiarsi a vicenda. Un vicino di casa colpisce Nick in modo particolare: si tratta di un misterioso Jay Gatsby, che abita in una casa smisurata e vistosa, riempiendola ogni sabato sera di invitati alle sue stravaganti feste. Eppure vive in una disperata solitudine e si innamorerà insensatamente della cugina sposata di Nick, Daisy... Il mito americano si decompone pagina dopo pagina, mantenendo tutto lo sfavillio di facciata ma mostrando anche il ventre molle della sua fragilità. Proprio come andava accadendo allo stesso Fitzgerald, ex casanova ed ex alcolizzato alle prese con il mistero di un'esistenza ormai votata alla dissoluzione finale.

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Feltrinelli
Language
Italian
Pages
240

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2021-01-17, Project Gutenberg
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2017, Alma Classics
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2013
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El gran Gatsby
2013, Debolsillo
in Spanish - 3. ed. con esta portada.
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Il grande Gatsby
2013, Feltrinelli
in Italian
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Gatsby
2012, Pocket
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The great Gatsby
2011, Arcturus
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El gran Gatsby
2009, Alfaguara, ALFAGUARA
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Der große Gatsby
2007, Diogenes, Diogenes Verlag AG
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El gran Gatsby
2005 August 2, Debolsillo
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The Great Gatsby
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OL40234118M
ISBN 13
9788807900235

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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.

--first edition jacket



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