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Great Gatsby (Norton Library)

作者:Fitzgerald, F. Scott/ Daniel, Anne Margaret

出版社:Norton

出版日期:2022.12.16

ISBN:9780393543193

書號:30264274

裝訂:平裝

定價:$341

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美國經典文學名著,一生至少讀過一次的必讀好書!

費茲傑羅的生涯代表作,影響後世無數作品

【有些過去,無法重來】

 

畢業於耶魯大學,出身良好人家的尼克・卡拉威終於來到紐約這個大都市,準備在這裡找份工作的他,順便來探望住在長島的表妹黛西,黛西在以前他們還住在中西部的時候就是家鄉出名的美人,誰知道黛西會剛好嫁給尼克的大學同學—湯姆・布坎南,並住進奢華富麗的豪宅,看似過著舒適愜意的生活,但這棟豪宅和傳說中的夢幻之城・紐約一比又遜色許多,這裡的一切事物都令人目眩神迷,一輛輛疾速通過第五大道的轎車,穿著西裝筆挺往來貿易的人們,流連高級餐廳和酒店的五光十色,但儘管這一切都令他心神嚮往,卻沒有比他隔壁的神秘富豪鄰居的行事還要令他瞠目結舌。

 

聽說他叫做蓋茲比,尼克知道他幾乎每天晚上都舉辦盛大的派對晚宴,極盡奢華鋪張之能事,香檳像泉水般在噴泉池裡湧現,現場演奏的樂隊聲音震耳欲聾,穿著時下最新穎服裝的男女鬢影交錯,胡鬧嬉笑,無論是舞廳,泳池或玄關到處都是穿著五顏六色的仕女仕紳、名人、富豪、魔術師、無賴醉漢,各形各色的人他都來者不拒。尼克對於突如其來的邀請感到好奇,而尼克更加好奇的是,鮮少露面的派對主人,蓋茲比先生。

 

尼克在派對上認識了高球名人喬丹・貝克小姐,她引介尼克和蓋茲比見面,意外發現兩人原來在兵役時待過同一隊,尼克和年齡相仿的蓋茲比相談甚歡,才發現原來這些日日通宵的狂歡派對,這棟華美如城堡的偌大宅邸,這些音樂和美酒,通通只是為了吸引長島對岸、那棟擁有閃著綠光碼頭宅邸女主人的目光,也就是他的表妹黛西。

 

費茲傑羅巧妙地捕捉當時代1920年代美國人的共同集體失落感,在追求無盡物質慾望巔峰的同時卻又將心靈徹底毀壞,透過故事敘述者尼克的眼睛,觀看這段奇異又詭譎的三角關係註定走上悲劇,同時身在其中又在其外,一邊不願和自己的表妹和大學好友撕破臉,一邊卻又為了蓋茲比痴戀的心和付出遭到鄙棄而感到不平,但過去真的無法重來,只是人始終不願看清。

 

When writer Nick Carraway leaves the Midwest for West Egg, near New York City, in the spring of 1922, he is swept into the dazzling world of his fabulously wealthy neighbor, Jay Gatsby. No one knows where Gatsby or his money comes from, but the parties at his mansion are legendary. Aloof and above the fray, Gatsby scans the crowd for one person in particular—Nick’s beautiful, inscrutable cousin Daisy Buchanan, who lives right across the bay. A sharp satire of the Jazz Age and the American Dream, and one of the twentieth century’s greatest novels, The Great Gatsby is the defining work of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s career.

作者介紹
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was educated at Princeton University and served in the United States Army during World War I. His first novel, This Side of Paradise (1920), was a national bestseller; Fitzgerald followed it with three more complete novels and hundreds of popular short stories. The Great Gatsby (1925), a timeless story of social class, race, and gender in America, remains his best-known work. Fitzgerald was living in Los Angeles, working on movie screenplays and a novel he called The Love of the Last Tycoon, when he died of a heart attack on December 21, 1941, at the age of 44.

Anne Margaret Daniel teaches literature at The New School University in New York City and has published widely on Fitzgerald, Modernism, and music. She is the editor of I’d Die For You and Other Lost Stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s last previously unpublished short stories, and of the forthcoming selected letters of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald. She lives in upstate New York.