村上春树曾在多个场合推荐过同一本书,他说:“这部雅致的长篇小说,是我写作生涯中的风向标,写作世界里的坐标轴。如果让我从所有书中选出最重要的一本,我会毫不犹豫地选择它。”这本书,就是菲茨杰拉德的代表作《了不起的盖茨比》。
看淡关系,凡事唯有靠自己。作者:洞见·许朝暮作家村上春树曾说,如果从最重要的书中选出一本,他会毫不犹豫地选择《了不起的盖茨比》。这本书是美国作家菲茨杰拉德的代表作,在百部优秀英文小说中排行第二位。年少时,以为这只是一场爱情悲剧,因黛西的薄情愤怒,为盖茨比的痴心难过。
有学者这样评价美国作家菲茨杰拉德:“在他如散文诗般优美的文笔之间,总是流淌着涓涓细流般的忧伤,酣畅欢乐生活描写的背后,常常深埋着一种幻灭感,一种悲切的惆怅。”如今重温盖茨比幻灭的悲情故事,终于读懂了这6个人生真相。
版权归作者所有,任何形式转载请联系作者。 《了不起的盖茨比》这本文学经典,光看书名,很容易看成“比尔盖茨”,加上“了不起的”四个字,更容易让人联想到,这本书讲的,估计是“一个人缔造了一个商业帝国”的故事。然而,万万没想到,它竟然是一个爱情故事,而且是一个这么动人的爱情故事。
书籍简介: 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…