Un diamant gros comme le Ritz / Le palais de glace

"Kopf und Schultern" ist eine Kurzgeschichte von F. Scott Fitzgerald, die 1920 geschrieben und in der Saturday Evening Post veröffentlicht wurde. Später erschien sie in seiner Kurzgeschichtensammlung Flappers and Philosophers. Sie erzählt die Geschichte des jungen Wunderkindes Horace Tarbox, der sich trotz seiner Selbstbeherrschung in eine temperamentvolle Tänzerin verliebt.

Horace Tarbox ist ein junger und angehender Intellektueller in Princeton, der völlig in seine Studien vertieft ist. Marcia taucht eines Tages vor seiner Tür auf und zeigt Horace eine andere Seite des Lebens. Schnell kommt es zu einer ungewöhnlichen Beziehung zwischen einem Philosophen und einer Schauspielerin. Marcia überredet Horaz, ihren Revueauftritt zu besuchen, und er findet Gefühle und Wertschätzung für die schöne Frau. Sie erwidert die Zuneigung, indem sie sich von der Beziehung der beiden als "Wunderkinder", wie sie es nennt, angezogen fühlt. Wohin diese ungewöhnliche Beziehung der beiden führt, das erzählt die Geschichte.

Kopf und Schultern - Kultige Story aus 'Flappers and Philosophers' 3

Bernice, a wealthy, young Wisconsinite, travels to her aunt's house to visit her cousin Marjorie. The pair have trouble connecting, however, and Bernice soon finds out that her cousin thinks she's putting a damper on her social life. Bernice doesn't know how to act at parties, so with her cousin's help, she turns into a true society girl. Soon she is dancing and flirting, often suggesting she has plans to bob her hair-the trademark of the "liberated" woman of the time. However, as Bernice descends deeper into her new lifestyle, the fickle nature of the social scene becomes increasingly evident. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" based on letters he had sent to his younger sister providing similar advice on how to become a more attractive society girl. It was originally printed in the Saturday Evening Post in 1920. HarperCollins 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 HarperCollins short-stories collection to build your digital library.

Bernice Bobs Her Hair - Short Story

Gatsby est un jeune millionnaire au passe trouble, issu d'une famille pauvre du Middle West. Dans une luxueuse propriete de Long Island, il donne de somptueuses receptions qui reunissent la haute societe New Yorkaise. Son voisin Nick va chercher a savoir qui est exactement cet homme, qui deviendra bientot son ami."

Gatsby Le Magnifique

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

Dalyrimple läuft unrund ("Dalyrimple Goes Wrong") ist eine Geschichte aus der Geschichtensammlung Flappers and Philosophers von F. Scott Fitzgerald über einen jungen Kriegsveteranen, der sich dem Verbrechen zuwendet, weil er sich von der Gesellschaft nicht gewürdigt fühlt. Das Hauptthema der Geschichte ist die jugendliche Unzufriedenheit mit gesellschaftlichen Rollen: Bryan Dalyrimple ist ein Kriegsheld, so erzählt man ihm, und so fühlt er sich, als hätte er Anspruch auf ein gewisses Maß an Respekt und materieller Belohnung, ohne danach streben zu müssen. Er ist nicht völlig egoistisch in seinen Motivationen; er will wirklich für seinen Lebensunterhalt arbeiten und fair bezahlt werden, aber er ist ungeduldig und nicht bereit, die Zeit und Mühe aufzubringen, die die meisten Menschen für den Erfolg eintauschen. Er ist extrem frustriert...

Dalyrimple läuft unrund - Kultige Story aus 'Flappers and Philosophers' 7

Twenty-one and no longer a debutante, Myra Harper suffers from the "calendar blues." But, as a friend advises, there isn't time to drift into romance, so she must instead "pick out the best thing in sight.and go after him hammer and tongs.""Myra Meets His Family" is typical of F. Scott Fitzgerald's early commercial stories in terms of character, setting and theme, and although Fitzgerald feared it was no good, it sold it easily to The Saturday Evening Post for four hundred dollars, marking the author's second appearance in the renowned magazine. Fox Film Corporation released the theatrical version of the story that same year titled The Husband Hunter, starring Eileen Percy. 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.

Myra Meets His Family - Short Story

Quelques semaines après la sortie de Gatsby le magnifique, F Scott Fitzgerald entreprend de rassembler les neuf nouvelles qui constituent ce recueil. Les thèmes qu'il aborde alors sont récurrents dans son oeuvre : les problèmes de couple, le jeune homme pauvre et la jeune fille riche, la construction de la personnalité, les rapports entre l'argent et l'amour. Mais l'approche de ces personnages est sensiblement différente de ses précédents textes. La coquette épouse frivole, la vamp ne règnent plus sur la scène mondaine et domestique du théâtre fitzgéraldien. Dans le couple constitué ou en voie de formation, c'est l'homme désormais qui détient le pouvoir et détermine le cours des choses, usant de vertus simples mais efficaces : la candeur, la sincérité du sentiment, le bon sens, la bonté ou encore la fidélité. Dans les histoires de ce recueil, ces attributs suffisent à venir à bout, sans violence, des égoïsmes les plus ravageurs des jolies jeunes femmes comme des aléas du destin.

Tous les jeunes gens tristes

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.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.

Un diamant gros comme le Ritz / Le palais de glace

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