The Great Gatsby
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(AMAZON REVIEW)
In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.
It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem.
In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.
It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem.
En el Meetup del DF, se lo pasaré a ggsosa
Gracias a shadazz, me lo paso en nuestra primera reunion ;)
Ya lo termine. Me gusto mucho y sirvio para conocer nuevas palabras y giros de lenguaje del ingles de principios del siglo XX. No esperaba ese final. Verdaderamente un clasico ;) Se lo devolvere a shadazz en nuestra proxima reunion.
Journal Entry 5 by ggsosa at Distrito Federal, Distrito Federal Mexico on Saturday, November 20, 2010
De regreso con shadazz en la reunion de noviembre. Muchas gracias!
Journal Entry 6 by shadazz at Distrito Federal, Distrito Federal Mexico on Sunday, February 27, 2011
Gatsby is back around everytime I saw a Fitzgerald book I immediately think about Bob Dylan.
Journal Entry 7 by shadazz at Fiesta del Libro y la Rosa 2011 in Ciudad Universitaria, Distrito Federal Mexico on Thursday, April 14, 2011
Released 13 yrs ago (4/14/2011 UTC) at Fiesta del Libro y la Rosa 2011 in Ciudad Universitaria, Distrito Federal Mexico
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Para liberar en la fiesta del libro y la rosa 2011 en el centro cultural universitario
Journal Entry 8 by Camikatzy at Ciudad Universitaria, Distrito Federal Mexico on Friday, April 15, 2011
Cazado en la Fiesta del Libro y la Rosa 2011
Gracias shadazz por compartirlo & acordarte de que estaba buscando lecturas de Fitzgerald porque acabo de leer historias de él.
En cuanto tenga tiempo lo leo & lo regreso
Gracias shadazz por compartirlo & acordarte de que estaba buscando lecturas de Fitzgerald porque acabo de leer historias de él.
En cuanto tenga tiempo lo leo & lo regreso
Journal Entry 9 by Camikatzy at Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal Mexico on Monday, October 8, 2012
Pensé que iba a salir la película & yo no iba a haber leído el libro, pero por fin después de 18 meses lo hice. Al principio me pareció un poco aburrido pero conforme fue avanzando me gustó más & no me esperaba ese final. Definitivamente seguiré buscando más libros de Fitzgerald. Gracias shadazz por el préstamo.
Cazado en la reunión de Junio, ¡gracias!
Lo estoy leyendo, al principio va lento pero ahora estoy en medio de toda la acción y... ¡Gatsby! Tierno, loco, raro, lindo Gatsby.
Lo dejé preocupado por su mujercita... y yo estoy más preocupada que ellos dos juntos. Me pregunto qué pasará.
Cuando termine, cuento.
Lo estoy leyendo, al principio va lento pero ahora estoy en medio de toda la acción y... ¡Gatsby! Tierno, loco, raro, lindo Gatsby.
Lo dejé preocupado por su mujercita... y yo estoy más preocupada que ellos dos juntos. Me pregunto qué pasará.
Cuando termine, cuento.
Finito.
¡Qué cosas! Pero así es la gente, y nunca se deja huella en alguien solo por dar fiestas impresionantes. Solo no me lo esperaba de Daisy... quién la viera...
¡Qué cosas! Pero así es la gente, y nunca se deja huella en alguien solo por dar fiestas impresionantes. Solo no me lo esperaba de Daisy... quién la viera...