L'Étrange Histoire de Benjamin Button; Un diamant gros comme le Ritz

«"Bon sang!" s’exclama-t-il tout haut. Le processus se poursuivait. Il n’y avait pas le moindre doute : il avait à présent l’apparence d’un homme de trente ans. Loin d’être ravi, il était embarrassé : il rajeunissait. Il avait espéré jusque-là que, une fois atteint l’âge physiquecorrespondant au nombre de ses années, le phénomène absurde qui avait marqué sa naissance cesserait d’opérer. Il frissonna. Son destin lui paraissait terrible, incroyable.»Deux Contes de l’âge du jazz – dont la célèbre «histoire de Benjamin Button» – par la plume la plus flamboyante et fêlée de la Génération perdue.

L'étrange histoire de Benjamin Button

All the Sad Young Men is the third collection of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The volume contains nine stories, Fitzgerald wrote at a time of disillusionment.

All the Sad Young Men

Nick Carraway journeys east to New York City and rents a bungalow in the Long Island village of West Egg, next to a luxurious estate inhabited by Jay Gatsby, an enigmatic multi-millionaire who hosts dazzling soirées yet does not partake in them. He reveals that Gatsby and his distant relative Daisy Buchanan met when Gatsby was an officer in the American Expeditionary Forces. They fell in love, but when Gatsby was deployed overseas, Daisy reluctantly married Tom Buchanan. Gatsby hopes that his newfound wealth and dazzling parties will make Daisy reconsider. Unsuccessful upon publication, The Great Gatsby is now considered a classic of American fiction.

The Great Gatsby

New York, années folles… Dans sa somptueuse demeure de Long Island, Jay Gatsby organise de fastueuses réceptions où les invités se pressent en foule. Mais leur hôte ne cherche à éblouir qu’une seule personne : Daisy Buchanan. Elle est élégante, riche, séduisante, mais elle est la femme d’un héritier millionnaire… Avec ce texte devenu un classique, Fitzgerald, sur un air de jazz et une coupe de champagne à la main, met à nu le Rêve américain et écrit l’un des plus beaux romans du XXe siècle, ici présenté dans la traduction de référence, par Jacques Tournier.

Gatsby le Magnifique

"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

«"J'adore les bijoux, renchérit Percy, enthousiaste. Naturellement, je ne voudrais pas que cela se sache à l'école, mais j'en ai moi-même une collection intéressante. J'en faisais la collection avant de me mettre aux timbres. - Et des diamants, reprit John, avec exaltation. Les Schnlitzer-Murphy avaient des diamants gros comme des noix¿ - Ça, ce n'est rien." Percy s'était penché vers lui et avait baissé la voix au point qu'elle n'était plus qu'un simple murmure. "Ce n'est rien du tout. Mon père a un diamant plus gros que l'hôtel Ritz-Carlton."» Pièce maîtresse de l'œuvre fitzgéraldienne, Le diamant gros comme le Ritz déplie singulièrement l'un des grands thèmes de son auteur : le faste et ses fantômes.

Le diamant gros comme le Ritz

O Russet Witch! is a short story by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald and was first published in the "Metropolitan," and first published in book form in Tales of the Jazz Age in 1922. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby (his most famous), and Tender Is the Night. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with age and despair. Fitzgerald's work has inspired writers ever since he was first published. The publication of The Great Gatsby prompted T. S. Eliot to write, in a letter to Fitzgerald, "[I]t seems to me to be the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James ...." Don Birnam, the protagonist of Charles Jackson's The Lost Weekend, says to himself, referring to The Great Gatsby, "There's no such thing ... as a flawless novel. But if there is, this is it." In letters written in the 1940s, J. D. Salinger expressed admiration of Fitzgerald's work, and his biographer Ian Hamilton wrote that Salinger even saw himself for some time as "Fitzgerald's successor." Richard Yates, a writer often compared to Fitzgerald, called The Great Gatsby "the most nourishing novel [he] read ... a miracle of talent ... a triumph of technique." It was written in a New York Times editorial after his death that Fitzgerald "was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation ... He might have interpreted them and even guided them, as in their middle years they saw a different and nobler freedom threatened with destruction."

La sorcière rousse

Official Film Edition including an interview with Baz Luhrmann Jay Gatsby's parties are legendary. Night and day, the rich and beautiful descend upon his mansion to drink and to dance. For Nick Carraway, newly arrived on Long Island, the handsome, wealthy Gatsby seems to lead the perfect life. But beneath that shimmering facade Gatsby harbours an obsessive desire for the only thing he truly wants, but can never have. The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece; a tragic love story played out in a world of dangerous illusion amidst the famous decadence of the roaring twenties. The perfect companion to the DVD, Blu-ray and soundtrack of Baz Luhrmann's movie, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire.

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