Une vie parfaite suivi de L'accordeur

Amory Blaine is an accomplished, attractive Princeton student who aspires to greatness. Called to serve during the First World War, Amory returns after the war and settles in New York where he falls in love with Rosalind Connage, a beautiful debutante with aspirations of her own. At turns wildly optimistic and bitterly cynical, This Side of Paradise is the story of what happens to love when it becomes distorted by greed. Published in 1920, This Side of Paradise was F. Scott Fitzgerald's debut novel. Written following a bitter break-up with Zelda Sayre, This Side of Paradise's acceptance for publication so impressed Sayre that she reconciled with Fitzgerald and the two married in 1920 shortly after the novel's debut. 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.

This Side Of Paradise

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.

Gatsby le magnifique

Un couple à l'image de la société dans laquelle il vit (celle des États-Unis entre les deux guerres) se désagrège, malgré les richesses dont il dispose.

Tendre est la nuit

The mysterious Jay Gatsby embodies the American notion that it is possible to redefine oneself and persuade the world to accept that definition. Gatsby's youthful neighbor, Nick Carraway, fascinated with the display of enormous wealth in which Gatsby revels, finds himself swept up in the lavish lifestyle of Long Island society during the Jazz Age. Considered Fitzgerald's best work, The Great Gatsby is a mystical, timeless story of integrity and cruelty, vision and despair.

Publiée en 1922, la nouvelle Rêves d’hiver est un concentré de l’œuvre de Scott Fitzgerald. On y retrouve les relations binaires qui tourmentèrent l’imagination littéraire de l’écrivain : la pauvreté et la richesse, le passé et le présent, les illusions et les désillusions, l’attente et la nostalgie. Dexter Green, l’enfant pauvre qui devient un homme riche, anticipe la figure tragique de Gatsby, alors que Judy Jones évoque immanquablement Daisy, son amour impossible. Ces dernières correspondent au prototype des héroïnes de Fitzgerald, femmes fatales à l’existence dorée qu’on pourrait résumer au ton séducteur de leur voix "pleine d’argent" et à leur indifférence affichée aux conséquences de leurs actes. Rêves d’hiver explore une des faces cachées du rêve américain.

Winter Dreams / Rêves d'hiver

Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character, Tender Is the Night is lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative.

Tendre Est La Nuit

In this story, a baby born in 1860 begins life as an old man and proceeds to age backward. F. Scott Fizgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called his era "a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken." Perhaps nowhere in American fiction has this "Lost Generation" been more vividly preserved than in Fitzgerald's short fiction.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

"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.

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