"Gatsby le Magnifique" (titre en anglais : "The Great Gatsby") est le troisième roman de l'écrivain américain Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940). Publié en 1925 aux États-Unis, il a été traduit en français à partir de 1926 sous ce titre (hormis la retraduction "Gatsby" de 2011). L'histoire se déroule à New York dans les années 1920. Il a souvent été décrit comme le reflet de l'époque du jazz dans la littérature américaine.

Gatsby le Magnifique

"S'il faut dire la vérité, Jay Gatsby, de West Egg, Long Island, naquit de la conception platonicienne qu'il avait de lui-même. Il était fils de Dieu - expression qui ne signifie peut-être rien d'autre que cela - et il lui incombait de s'occuper des affaires de Son Père, de servir une beauté immense, vulgaire, clinquante. Aussi inventa-t-il la seule sorte de Jay Gatsby qu'un garçon de dix-sept ans était susceptible d'inventer, et il demeura fidèle à cette conception jusqu'à la fin.Le chef-d'œuvre de F. Scott Fitzgerald paraît ici dans une traduction inédite de Philippe Jaworski.

Gatsby le magnifique

»It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in North America. It was on that slender riotous island which extends itself due east of New York and where there are, among other natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land. Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water. I lived at West Egg, the less fashionable of the two, though it is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them. My house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards away from the Sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand for a season. the one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard. It was Gatsby's mansion.«

The Great Gatsby (English Edition)

"The Jelly-Bean" "The Camel's Back" "May Day" "Porcelain and Pink" "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" "Tarquin of Cheapside" "Oh Russet Witch!" "The Lees of Happiness" "Mr. Icky" "Jemina"

Les enfents du jazz

Gatsby est un jeune millionnaire au passé trouble, issu d’une famille pauvre du Middle West. Dans une luxueuse propriété de Long Island, il donne de somptueuses réceptions qui réunissent la haute société New Yorkaise. Son voisin Nick va chercher à savoir qui est exactement cet homme, qui deviendra bientôt son ami.

MY LAST FLAPPERS THE JELLY-BEAN. Jim Powell was a Jelly-bean. Much as I desire to make him an appealing character, I feel that it would be unscrupulous to deceive you on that point. He was a bred-in-the-bone, dyed-in-the-wool, ninety-nine three-quarters per cent Jelly-bean and he grew lazily all during Jelly-bean season, which is every season, down in the land of the Jelly-beans well below the Mason-Dixon line. Now if you call a Memphis man a Jelly-bean he will quite possibly pull a long sinewy rope from his hip pocket and hang you to a convenient telegraph-pole. If you Call a New Orleans man a Jelly-bean he will probably grin and ask you who is taking your girl to the Mardi Gras ball. The particular Jelly-bean patch which produced the protagonist of this history lies somewhere between the two—a little city of forty thousand that has dozed sleepily for forty thousand years in southern Georgia occasionally stirring in its slumbers and muttering something about a war that took place sometime, somewhere, and that everyone else has forgotten long ago. Jim was a Jelly-bean. I write that again because it has such a pleasant sound—rather like the beginning of a fairy story—as if Jim were nice. It somehow gives me a picture of him with a round, appetizing face and all sort of leaves and vegetables growing out of his cap. But Jim was long and thin and bent at the waist from stooping over pool-tables, and he was what might have been known in the indiscriminating North as a corner loafer. "Jelly-bean" is the name throughout the undissolved Confederacy for one who spends his life conjugating the verb to idle in the first person singular—I am idling, I have idled, I will idle. Jim was born in a white house on a green corner, It had four weather-beaten pillars in front and a great amount of lattice-work in the rear that made a cheerful criss-cross background for a flowery sun-drenched lawn. Originally the dwellers in the white house had owned the ground next door and next door to that and next door to that, but this had been so long ago that even Jim's father, scarcely remembered it. He had, in fact, thought it a matter of so little moment that when he was dying from a pistol wound got in a brawl he neglected even to tell little Jim, who was five years old and miserably frightened. The white house became a boarding-house run by a tight-lipped lady from Macon, whom Jim called Aunt Mamie and detested with all his soul

Contes de l'âge du jazz

Éclats du paradis

Middle-class Dexter Green has big dreams-to one day be as elite as the "old-money" families he works for each day as a golf caddy. When Dexter returns to the golf club as the guest of the men he once caddied for, he meets his undoing in the enchanting Judy Jones. First published in Metropolitan Magazine in 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams" was considered by the author to be the first draft of The Great Gatsby. It is his most popular and republished short story within the Gatsby-cluster. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Gatsby le Magnifique

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