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Fitzgerald Francis Scott

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Francis Scott Fitzgerald: Stories from the Jazz Age

Francis Scott Fitzgerald is one of the most famous American (and world) writers of the 20th century, but it is interesting that his fame is de facto based on one single work, the novel The Great Gatsby, and the unrestrained lifestyle that he and his wife Zelda promoted during the "Roaring 20s" or "Jazz Age". Fitzgerald was the first among the great writers of his generation (Dos Passos, Faulkner, Hemingway) to achieve great success; he became famous overnight, fashionable magazines paid him fabulous fees for stories, and when he moved to New York and married Zelda, they became the first celebrities in today's sense of the word. Dressed in the most modern fashion, they went to the craziest parties in the most attractive cars, or organized them themselves...
Stories from the Jazz Age is Fitzgerald's second short story collection, composed of eleven works, among which are two of his most appreciated short prose, The First of May and A Diamond as Big as the Ritz Hotel, and, thanks to the film adaptation directed by David Fincher, probably the author's best-known story today, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The collection is characterized by two fundamental intonation components of Fitzgerald's poetics - playful irony and melancholy, and looking at it as a whole, Stories from the Jazz Age present its author as a master of short stories and convincingly testify to the great talent of the writer, unfortunately far more often left to the untamed waves of life's joys and sorrows than to detailed and meticulous literary creation.
Although Fitzgerald used to say that writing stories for him was prostitution, they are representative, and almost all of them here are, show that he is a master of short and shorter prose forms.
Therefore, the publication of Stories from the Jazz Age, only his third Croatian book translation, is an extremely significant event for this cultural space.
(From the foreword by Damir Radić)

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