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Cover: 9788027382897 | My Generation | Francis Scott Fitzgerald | Taschenbuch | Englisch
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My Generation
A Jazz Age Meditation on Postwar Youth, Ambition, Romance, Money, and American Disillusionment
Taschenbuch von Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Sprache: Englisch

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My Generation is Fitzgerald's searching meditation on the cohort that came of age amid the First World War and reached its dazzling, disillusioned maturity in the 1920s. Combining autobiographical reflection, social criticism, and the polished lyric irony that marks his fiction, the work examines youth, ambition, money, romance, and moral fatigue. It belongs to the same literary context as the Jazz Age novels and stories, illuminating the emotional atmosphere behind modern American self-invention. Francis Scott Fitzgerald, born in 1896, was uniquely positioned to chronicle this generation because he both celebrated and suffered its excesses. His rise with This Side of Paradise made him a spokesman for postwar youth, while his marriage to Zelda Sayre, financial instability, artistic discipline, and later disenchantment deepened his understanding of glamour's costs. His personal history gave urgency to his reflections on aspiration and loss. Readers interested in Fitzgerald beyond The Great Gatsby will find My Generation invaluable. It clarifies the cultural pressures that shaped his imagination and offers a concise, elegant key to his recurring themes. The book is especially recommended for students of American modernism, the Jazz Age, and literature's power to diagnose an era.
My Generation is Fitzgerald's searching meditation on the cohort that came of age amid the First World War and reached its dazzling, disillusioned maturity in the 1920s. Combining autobiographical reflection, social criticism, and the polished lyric irony that marks his fiction, the work examines youth, ambition, money, romance, and moral fatigue. It belongs to the same literary context as the Jazz Age novels and stories, illuminating the emotional atmosphere behind modern American self-invention. Francis Scott Fitzgerald, born in 1896, was uniquely positioned to chronicle this generation because he both celebrated and suffered its excesses. His rise with This Side of Paradise made him a spokesman for postwar youth, while his marriage to Zelda Sayre, financial instability, artistic discipline, and later disenchantment deepened his understanding of glamour's costs. His personal history gave urgency to his reflections on aspiration and loss. Readers interested in Fitzgerald beyond The Great Gatsby will find My Generation invaluable. It clarifies the cultural pressures that shaped his imagination and offers a concise, elegant key to his recurring themes. The book is especially recommended for students of American modernism, the Jazz Age, and literature's power to diagnose an era.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Importe, Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9788027382897
ISBN-10: 8027382890
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Fitzgerald, Francis Scott
Hersteller: e-artnow
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: e-artnow s.r.o., Za Sidlistem 22, ?-143 00 Prague, kristoferpaetau@gmail.com
Maße: 229 x 152 x 3 mm
Von/Mit: Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.05.2023
Gewicht: 0,081 kg
Artikel-ID: 126984933
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