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En este relato, Scott Fitzgerald nos demuestra cómo la perspectiva es fundamental a la hora de concluir lo que se ha visto. Benjamín es un hombre que nace viejo pero a medida que pasan los años va recuperando la juventud, lo cual le va a permitir ver a la sociedad que le rodea con los ojos con gran capacidad crítica, que le permite una perspectiva completamente diferente.

La decadencia, idealismo y el exceso de la sociedad Americana serán observados desde la perspectiva de Nick Carraway, un joven criado en el medio oeste y recién llegado a la gran Manzana. Considerada como la obra maestra de F. Scott Fitzgerald, Carraway tendrá la oportunidad de vivir el sueño Americano junto a su vecino, el gran Gatsby.

Romanen "Natten er blid" udkom i USA i 1934. Det er F. Scott Fitzgeralds mest ambitiøse værk om mellemkrigstidens fortabte generation, og også den mest selvransagende. Der er en god portion af Fitzgeralds ombruste ægteskab med Zelda i denne skildring af ægteparret Dick og Nicole Diver, der er bosat på den franske Riviera. Divers er rige, smukke, dejlige - og frem for alt sjove at være sammen med. Men facaden holder ikke i længden, og deres kærlighed styrer mod afgrunden.

La figura de Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1890-1940), el escritor más brillante de la llamada "generación perdida", parece extraída de sus propias novelas, que retrataron como ningunas otras la "época del jazz" y la profunda crisis de valores experimentada por la sociedad norteamericana a lo largo de los años veinte, que culminó con el crack económico de 1929.

Dick Diver ist ein sorgloser und skrupelloser Sunnyboy, der nichts wirklich ernst nimmt. Er studiert Psychologie, weil das hübscheste Mädchen der Uni in diesem Fach eingeschrieben ist. Er heiratet eine psychisch labile Patientin, weil deren Familie überaus vermögend ist und gründet mit deren Geld eine Klinik für Nervenkrankheiten. Mit Alkohol und Affären befriedigt er weiterhin sein Ego, aber mit den Jahren stellt er fest, dass ihn weder seine Familie noch seine Arbeit glücklich machen.

NBC University Theater initially started in Chicago with a remit to bring adaptations of classic novels, usually Anglo-American, to a radio audience. In its later years, it also included short stories and plays and went on to win the distinguished Peabody award. University Theater relied on excellent distillations of the novels and first-class acting alongside high production values.

The debut novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the book examines the lives and morality of American youth in the aftermath of World War I. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status seeking.  

The Great Gatsby is a classic work of American literary fiction. Set in the Jazz Age in the 1920s, the story is deeply interesting from a historical lens. The plot centers around a mysterious wealthy figure, Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby lives a lavish lifestyle, but as it turns out his money does not buy him happiness or love. Told from the perspective of narrator Nick Carraway, the plots follows the lives of lavish New Yorkers and their love lives.

Tales of the Jazz Age is a collection of short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the most well-known Jazz Age writers whose works have stood the test of time. These stories are separated into several themes, ranging from the fantastical to the more realistic.

In this sketch that features a young mountain girl, her family, and the feuding family across the street, Fitzgerald closes out his collection of Tales of the Jazz Age with this light and entertaining piece.

This short story is included in Tales of the Jazz Age, a collection written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald says, "I suppose that of all the stories I have ever written this one cost me the least travail and perhaps gave me the most amusement...it was written during one day in the city of New Orleans.... My amusement was derived from the fact that the camel part of the story is literally true; in fact, I have a standing engagement with the gentleman involved to attend the next fancy-dress party to which we are mutually invited, attired as the latter part of the camel"....

First published in 1922 as part of Fitzgerald's Tales of the Jazz Age, this short story calls upon the author's innate sense to focus on the sense of disaster and is often regarded as one of his best short story works.

A product of Fitzgerald's undergraduate days at Princeton, this short story featured in Tales of the Jazz Age was published in Smart Set in 1921.

A short Southern story, Fitzgerald takes the listener on a trip to Lily of Tarleton, Georgia. "The Jelly-Bean", published in The Metropolitan, was written under strange circumstances shortly after his first novel was published, and, moreover, it was the first story in which he had a collaborator. Fitzgerald's wife, who was a Southern girl, acted as his expert on the topic.

Written after the completion of the first draft of his second novel, this short story featured in Tales of the Jazz Age was written by Fitzgerald and features a man who settled in his love life and the daring, interesting woman who could have been his future.

From Tales of the Jazz Age, this one-act play was featured in Smart Set and chronicles the adventures of a woman in a bathtub and a case of mistaken identity.

Written in a decade when American music and literature were exploding in new directions, F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of 11 short stories that capture the spirit of the times. The author of The Great Gatsby divided this collection into three parts: My Last Flappers, Fantasies, and Unclassified Masterpieces. Among these beloved short works is the classic "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", which describes a man who grows younger in appearance as he ages.

In the early 20th century, Anthony Patch, a socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune, finds himself falling madly in love with another socialite. Self-absorbed and vain, Gloria Gilbert jumps at the chance to marry Anthony, and the pair embark on a downward spiral that illustrates their selfishness and leaves them both unfulfilled.

Perhaps the greatest American novel written, The Great Gatsby is set in New York, in 1922, in a rich, spoiled world with crime and bootlegging in the background.

Return to the turbulent Jazz Age and of Prohibition, the summer of 1922, as Nick Carraway relates the story of his cousin, the beautiful but married Daisy Buchanan, and of her affair with her former lover, the mysterious Jay Gatsby. One of the greatest of American novels, it is a story of an age of excess and rebellion, of desires of the flesh and those of the dollar, all ending in tragedy.