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  • Ah, The Great Gatsby. Tackling a book usually considered one of the finest English language novels of the 20th century was one I looked foward to, since I had first read the novel about 10 years ago at the tender age of 16. I don't remember the novel hitting quite as hard or as significantly as Fit ... Continue

    Ah, The Great Gatsby. Tackling a book usually considered one of the finest English language novels of the 20th century was one I looked foward to, since I had first read the novel about 10 years ago at the tender age of 16. I don't remember the novel hitting quite as hard or as significantly as Fitzgerald's other works (This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and the Damned & Tender is the Night, which I also read around the same time), so I was eager for a re-read. And so..........the beauty and elegance of the style of Fitzgerald found in Gatsby is striking and memorable--especially after just finishing a novel by someone as terse and unromantic as Charles Bukowski. What's more, the characters and atmosphere Fiztgerald creates, while being from a era, social ladder and culture far removed from my own, are, nevertheless, still interesting and pertinent because the author imbues them with an sense of frailty and humanity that is timeless. Looking at it now 10+ years later, I can see why this short novel eluded my teenage grasp and didn't quite register. It's style was too refined, its subject matter one I could only really understand after years of coming to terms with my own manhood and life experiences only faintly realized at 16.

    

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  • So applicable to today's environment. narcissism, greed, and unrequited love. There is a reason it is called 'the great American novel".

    

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• ― Dchase21 said on Apr 24, 2009 about the School & Library Binding edition| Add your feedback

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  • A MUST read.

    

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• ― Jane (delaflowers) said on Jul 25, 2008 about the Hardcover edition| Add your feedback

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  • In his introduction, Harold Bloom states that The Great Gatsby "has become part of what must be called the American mythology." This volume offers a complete critical survey of the novel, including examinations of its structure and narrative stance, redefining of the hero, and more. This series is e ... Continue

    In his introduction, Harold Bloom states that The Great Gatsby "has become part of what must be called the American mythology." This volume offers a complete critical survey of the novel, including examinations of its structure and narrative stance, redefining of the hero, and more. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts presents critical essays that reflect a variety of schools of criticism on the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature. Each volume also contains an introductory essay by Harold Bloom, critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index.

    

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• ― meganzing said on Jul 2, 2007 about the School & Library Binding edition| Add your feedback

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  • Once again..I probably would have liked this book more if my classmates didn't exist. They don't let you read in peace and they don't dicuss the text in class.

    

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• ― Bostonrox2 said on Jun 25, 2007 about the School & Library Binding edition| Add your feedback

172㎝의 키와 65㎏도 되지 않는 깡마른 체격, 금발머리와 옥수수수염을 가진 이 청년 작가에게 보내는 미국인들의 찬사는 한 세기가 지난 지금까지도 식을 줄 모른다. 작품성뿐만 아니라 스타성까지 겸비해 대중들의 사랑을 한몸에 받은 피츠제럴드는 45년이라는 결코 길다고 할 수 없는 삶을 사는 동안 미국인들이라면 누구나 동감하는 이야기들을 세상에 내놓은 가장 미국적인 작가이다. 『위대한 개츠비』는 그 중에서도 가장 오랜 시간 전 세계 독자들의 마음을 사로잡았던 작가의 대표적인 작품이다. 이 작품은 뉴욕타임즈가 선정한 영미 100대 소설에 선정되었으며, 영어권 작가들이 뽑은 최고 작품 TOP 10에 선정되기도 했다.

In The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusion of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with wealth and status. But he does more than render the essence of a particular time and place, for in chronicling Gatsby's tragic pursuit of his dream, Fitzgerald recreates the universal conflict between illusion and reality. [예스24 제공]

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