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Tender is the Night

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Scribner, 27/05/2003 - 368 páginas
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in a friend's copy of Tender Is the Night, "If you liked The Great Gatsby, for God's sake read this. Gatsby was a tour de force but this is a confession of faith." Set in the South of France in the decade after World War I, Tender Is the Night is the story of a brilliant and magnetic psychiatrist named Dick Diver; the bewitching, wealthy, and dangerously unstable mental patient, Nicole, who becomes his wife; and the beautiful, harrowing ten-year pas de deux they act out along the border between sanity and madness.

In Tender Is the Night, Fitzgerald deliberately set out to write the most ambitious and far-reaching novel of his career, experimenting radically with narrative conventions of chronology and point of view and drawing on early breakthroughs in psychiatry to enrich his account of the makeup and breakdown of character and culture.

Tender Is the Night is also the most intensely, even painfully, autobiographical of Fitzgerald's novels; it smolders with a dark, bitter vitality because it is so utterly true. This account of a caring man who disintegrates under the twin strains of his wife's derangement and a lifestyle that gnaws away at his sense of moral values offers an authorial cri de coeur, while Dick Diver's downward spiral into alcoholic dissolution is an eerie portent of Fitzgerald's own fate.

F. Scott Fitzgerald literally put his soul into Tender Is the Night, and the novel's lack of commercial success upon its initial publication in 1934 shattered him. He would die six years later without having published another novel, and without knowing that Tender Is the Night would come to be seen as perhaps its author's most poignant masterpiece. In Mabel Dodge Luhan's words, it raised him to the heights of "a modern Orpheus."

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Nice prose, wafer-thin plot. - Goodreads
Heartbreaking... what a strangling ending - Goodreads
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful writing. - Goodreads
This is a book with a very weak ending. - Goodreads
Beautifully told love story. - Goodreads
I wish he'd kept the more moderate pace throughout. - Goodreads

Review: Tender Is the Night

Reseña de usuario  - Tinuccia - Goodreads

Before this book I read some Fitzerald's short stories and his novels: Great Gatsby and This Side of Paradise. I really liked it so I thought this one'd be good too. I was wrong. This novel's about ... Leer reseña completa

Review: Tender Is the Night

Reseña de usuario  - Craig Herbertson - Goodreads

It probably should be a four star becasue of the excessive rewriting which give the plot a garbled feel but there are moments which transcend the masculine soul here. It's a book for every man who believes in his own potential. The understated ending is a gem Leer reseña completa

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Sobre el autor (2003)

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, attended Princeton University, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and the couple divided their time among New York, Paris, and the Riviera, becoming a part of the American expatriate circle that included Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and John Dos Passos. Fitzgerald was a major new literary voice, and his masterpieces include The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. He died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of forty-four, while working on The Love of the Last Tycoon. For his sharp social insight and breathtaking lyricism, Fitzgerald is known as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.

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