Francis Scott Fitzgerald: The Crack-Up

Cover: 9788028338343 | The Crack-Up | Francis Scott Fitzgerald | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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The Crack-Up gathers Fitzgerald's searing 1936 Esquire essays, later framed with notebooks, letters, and tributes, into a fractured self-portrait of artistic exhaustion. Its central pieces-The Crack-Up, Pasting It Together, and Handle with Care-turn personal collapse into modernist diagnosis: lyrical, ironic, aphoristic, and ruthlessly self-conscious. Set against the fading brilliance of the Jazz Age and the moral weather of the Depression, the book replaces the glitter of The Great Gatsby with a stripped prose of reckoning. F. Scott Fitzgerald knew the conditions he anatomizes: early fame, financial precarity, alcoholism, Hollywood compromise, and the long illness of Zelda Fitzgerald all pressed upon his imagination. Once celebrated as the laureate of youth and wealth, he writes here from the margins of his own legend, testing whether a writer can survive the loss of glamour, confidence, and cultural centrality. Readers interested in American modernism, literary self-analysis, or the underside of success will find The Crack-Up indispensable. It is not merely a confession of defeat, but a lucid study of how identity, talent, and ambition endure after illusion breaks.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Genre:	Importe , Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9788028338343
ISBN-10:	8028338348
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Fitzgerald, Francis Scott
Hersteller:	Sharp Ink
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Copycat s.r.o., 22, Holesovice, Schnirchova 662, ?-170 00 Prague, kristoferpaetau@gmail.com
Maße:	229 x 152 x 4 mm
Von/Mit:	Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Erscheinungsdatum:	26.11.2023
Gewicht:	0,088 kg