When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote THE GREAT GATSBY in the early 1920s, the American Dream was already on the skids. Originally based on the idea that the pursuit of happiness involves not only material success but moral and spiritual growth, the dream had by Fitzgerald's time become increasingly focused on money and pleasure-a phenomenon the high-living writer was only too familiar with. In THE GREAT GATSBY, Fitzgerald looks deeply into himself and his milieu to create the story of James Gatz, a self-educated nobody from North Dakota who has amassed a fortune and adopted the persona of Jay Gatsby, an Oxford-educated man about town, for the sole purpose of winning back the heart of Daisy, the woman he loved in his youth. Daisy is now married to Tom Buchanan-a brutal, ignorant racist who embodies the corruption that can come with unlimited wealth. As Gatsby, Daisy, and Tom-and the narrator, Daisy's cousin Nick Carroway, who serves as the author's spokesman-play out the drama in a small Long Island town (the East Hampton of its day), Fitzgerald makes it increasingly clear that life is meaningless when it is based on money and glamour at the expense of the solid American values of self-reliance and hard work-and Gatsby's sad end underscores the point. THE GREAT GATSBY has long been celebrated as the archetypal American novel, and, just as Fitzgerald's book grew out of the tradition that included Henry James and Edith Wharton, its influence on later writers from J. D. Salinger to John O'Hara cannot be overestimated. The book remains vividly alive and widely read years after its writing.
《了不起的盖茨比》(名著名译插图本)弗·司各特·菲茨杰拉德(1896-1940),美国二十世纪最杰出的作家之一。《了不起的盖茨比》是他最著名的代表作。二十世纪二十年代的美国,空气里弥漫着欢歌与纵饮的气息。一个偶然的机会,穷职员尼克闯入了挥金如土的大富翁盖茨比隐秘的世界,惊讶地发现,他内心惟一的牵绊竟是对河岸那盏小小的绿灯——灯影婆娑中,住着心爱的黛西。然而,冰冷的现实容不下缥缈的梦,到头来,盖茨比心中的女神只不过是凡尘俗世的物质女郎。当一切真相大白,盖茨比的悲剧人生亦如烟花般,璀璨只是一瞬,幻灭才是永恒。一阕华丽的“爵士时代”的挽歌,在菲茨杰拉德笔下,如诗如梦,在美国当代文学史上留下了墨色浓重的印痕。
最近看《了不起的盖茨比》,想起乔伊斯的《阿拉比》,小男孩爱上了同学的姐姐,做梦里这女孩都在闪金光,女孩老提有个阿拉比的市场,听上去充满了东方神秘的色彩,和女孩一样闪闪发光,小男孩于是发花痴,一定要到那市场去给女孩买件东西,于是一番折腾,汽车,火车,走错路,...
评分作者:烽少 她是你久久注视,整夜整夜看守,想要用双手严严实实地遮住,好好守护的远处那一盏小星星一样孤零零的绿灯; 你不过是她天空中的浮云一片。你的远道而来,难道只为这一刻遇见她后的烟消云散? 盖茨比的伟大和悲哀就在于身在纸醉金迷,纵情享乐的时代,仍念念不忘,不...
评分《了不起的盖茨比》把故事讲得好极,我就只就故事说说故事吧,因为据说其最精妙之处在于语言,可对于译著读者,那是很难去谈的。 菲茨杰拉德把盖茨比的故事讲得张驰相宜、收放自若,而且精细严谨、流畅雅致。人物个个形象鲜明,无论对话、行为还是心理,都生动传神。其内在逻...
评分等待的哀歌 当我翻完《了不起的盖茨比》的最后一页,我莫名其妙的回忆起一年前的一个秋夜阅读果戈理《涅瓦大街》的情景。当我在涅瓦大街迷人的街灯和喧闹的人群中目睹一个纯真又孱弱的年轻人的激情,被现实的荒谬彻底击碎的时候,我感到一种难以名状的情绪令我无处遁形。庇斯卡...
评分如果不是想要为去电影院看无字幕的原版片做pre-reading,我大概是永远不会去读这样一本标题朴实且并不怎么有吸引力的小说的吧。 这本来是个简单的故事,落魄的年轻军官盖茨比经过机遇与奋斗成为了东岸最富有的人,他想要的一切不过是挽回当年的爱人,而这一切因为爱人的...
多年前看过中文版,一直念念不忘。虽说不是菲茨杰拉德最让我喜爱的一部作品,但是的确是短小精悍却仍然让人唏嘘不已的精品。我总觉得菲茨杰拉德笔下的人多多少少都有他自己的影子,而他书里的女神多多少少也有zelda的影子。他总是能将辉煌建立于虚无,又重新摧毁至虚无,然后享受着在灰霾绝望里的情绪,他越自虐,我越爱他。
评分Kindle version 也许没有读懂
评分One of G's favorite books. The writing, especially the description of details is extraordinary. But I can't say I love it. It's too cruel. Women want security, men want reality. We are the creators of our own tragedy.
评分多年前看过中文版,一直念念不忘。虽说不是菲茨杰拉德最让我喜爱的一部作品,但是的确是短小精悍却仍然让人唏嘘不已的精品。我总觉得菲茨杰拉德笔下的人多多少少都有他自己的影子,而他书里的女神多多少少也有zelda的影子。他总是能将辉煌建立于虚无,又重新摧毁至虚无,然后享受着在灰霾绝望里的情绪,他越自虐,我越爱他。
评分读罢,思绪良多。
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