This is the story of Amory Blaine-a handsome,wealthy,and spoiled young Princeton student.Closely mirroring Fitzgerald's own experiences at school and abroad,Blaine's journey from prep school to college to the First World -War is the story of "the lost generation."Cynical and world-weary at the age of thirty,Blaine is the symbol of what Fitzgerald described as" a new gen-eration...
This is the story of Amory Blaine-a handsome,wealthy,and spoiled young Princeton student.Closely mirroring Fitzgerald's own experiences at school and abroad,Blaine's journey from prep school to college to the First World -War is the story of "the lost generation."Cynical and world-weary at the age of thirty,Blaine is the symbol of what Fitzgerald described as" a new gen-eration grown up to find all Gods dead,all wars fought,all faiths in man shaken."
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St.Paul,Minnesta,and attended Princeton University.In 1920,the same year in which the publication of This Side of Paradise propelled him to famd,he married Zelda Sayre.The couple divided their time between New York,Paris,and the Rivera,running in expatriate circles taht included such notable literary figures as Gertrude Stein,Ernest Hemin...
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St.Paul,Minnesta,and attended Princeton University.In 1920,the same year in which the publication of This Side of Paradise propelled him to famd,he married Zelda Sayre.The couple divided their time between New York,Paris,and the Rivera,running in expatriate circles taht included such notable literary figures as Gertrude Stein,Ernest Hemingway,and John Dos Passos.One of the most influential American writers of the twentieth century,Fitzgerald's masterpieces include The Beautiful and the Damned,The Great Gatsby,and Tender Is the Night.Upon his dearth in 1940,left behind an unfinished novel,The Love of the Last Tycoon,which was published posthumously.
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This side of Paradise
Critical Excerpts
F.Scott Fitzgerald on
This Side of Paradise
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F. Scott Fitzgerald的这部作品,跟他的另一部成名作The Great Gatsby有很大的不同。有人认为这部书好似梦呓,形式散乱,看到中间就好难看下去。 This Side of Paradise的确不像一个严密的故事,像是意识流,作者通过Amory这个角色去倾诉他的迷茫。 从童年一直到在普林斯顿大...
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第一章 Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while. His father, an ineffectual, inarticulate man with a taste for Byron and a habit of drowsing over the Encyclopedia Britannica, grew we...
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0 有用 Heidegger 2013-05-11 21:53:24
华丽美好的长句子,有趣的明喻暗喻,时不时冒出来的机智幽默尖酸刻薄,各种美好的氛围,不过对于一代人的幻灭啦有时出现的大片大片的议论啦还得好好研究才行,最后还是忍不住想说,菲茨杰拉德好棒\(≧▽≦)/
0 有用 野次馬 2010-03-24 07:45:42
前面读得很混乱。说到底 核心还是Egotist成长史啊....
0 有用 WALL·E 2012-08-11 22:51:54
情节主线不是很清楚所以看得有点痛苦拖了很长时间才看完 其实说到底就是Amory一次又一次lo掉的故事。。。 里面的描写很美
1 有用 SunnySY 2016-08-12 05:17:17
Rumor has it that Princeton does not appreciate the author's revealing account of his college life there
0 有用 momo 2018-01-25 15:13:28
不知所云,当做自传来看,大概是25岁之前的流水账。然而文字很美。