The Great Gatsby. The main novels of the Jazz era

The book presents the 4 main novels: from the early prereachments “on this side of Paradise” and “Beautiful and Doomed”, peculiar manifestos of youth of the “Jazz Century”, to late recognized masterpieces - “Great Gatsby”, "Night is tender ”. "On this side of Paradise." The story of Emory Blaine, a young and ambitious American, capable of going for a lot to achieve his goals, has become the personification of Jazz"s Age, his aspirations and disappointments. As Fitzgerald himself said. The author must write for the youth of his generation, for critics of the next and for professors of all subsequent ones. "Beautiful and damned". This time Fitzgerald introduces us to the new heroes of the Jealous twenties - the brilliant Anthony Patch and his beautiful wife Gloria. Waiting for Grandfather Anthony, a multimillionaire, and leaves their enormous condition to die, they burn their lives in New York, have dinner in the best restaurants, rent the most prestigious housing. It is not immediately that each choice has its own price - sometimes an unbearable ... "Great Gatsby" is the most famous novel by Fitzgerald, who has become a symbol of the "age of jazz". America, 1925, the time of the "dry law" and gangster showdowns, bright lights and a bright life. But for Jay Gatsby, the embodiment of the American dream turned into a real tragedy, and the path up, despite the glory and wealth, led to a total crash. "The night is gentle" is an amazingly subtle and deeply psychological novel. And this is no coincidence: the book turned out to be largely autobiographical, Fitzgerald described in it the flip side of his outwardly luxurious life with his wife Zelda. In the story of the moral degradation of a talented psychiatrist, he invested the pain and suffering that he himself experienced in the fight against schizophrenia of his wife ... a jubilant, sparkling thirst for life, the desire for love, beckoning and eliminating, exciting pursuit of wealth-but the dream breaks to the sounds of jazz , and the eternal holiday turns into a tragedy - this is such a different and deep prose of Fitzgerald