Conversations With F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald, F. Scott; Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph (EDT); Baughman, Judith S. (EDT); Baughman, Judith S.

ISBN 10: 1578066050 / ISBN 13: 9781578066056

Edité par University Press of Mississippi, 2003

N° de réf. du vendeur 1653229-n

Synopsis :

Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald assembles over thirty interviews with one of America's greatest novelists, the author of The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night.

Although most of these are not standard interviews in the modern sense, the quotes from Fitzgerald and the contemporary journalistic reaction to him reveal much about his writing techniques, artistic wisdom, and life. Editors Matthew J. Bruccoli, the foremost Fitzgerald scholar, and Judith S. Baughman have collected the most usable and articulate pieces on Fitzgerald, including a three-part 1922 interview conducted for the St. Paul Daily News.

Fitzgerald (1896-1940) died before the authorial interview became a literary subgenre after World War II. Although Fitzgerald enjoyed his celebrity, as is clear in these pieces, he had a poor sense of public relations and provided interviewers with opportunities to trivialize him. As a result, Fitzgerald was often treated condescendingly in the press. Seven of his interviews-five printed before 1924-have flapper in their headlines. In the Jazz Age-a term Fitzgerald coined-he was regarded as a spokesman for rebellious youth, as a playboy, as an authority on sex and marriage, as an expert on Prohibition, and as an immensely popular writer for his work published in the Saturday Evening Post. Yet his literary ambitions were sizable and his impact on American fiction immeasurable.

À propos des auteurs: Matthew J. Bruccoli is Jefferies Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. He has written or edited thirty volumes on F. Scott Fitzgerald, including the standard biography, Some Sort of Epic Grandeur. He is also editor of Conversations with Ernest Hemingway and coeditor of Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald and Conversations with John le Carre, all published by University Press of Mississippi.

Judith S. Baughman works in the Department of English at the University of South Carolina. She is coeditor of Conversations with John le Carre and Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald, both published by University Press of Mississippi.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Conversations With F. Scott Fitzgerald
Éditeur : University Press of Mississippi
Date d'édition : 2003
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : New