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2006-12-28
- 【The writer of the Jazz Age, once that age was over.】
Tender is the Night is definitely one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpieces and, dealing with the collapse of a marriage and a superficial, avaricious society, surely his most autobiographical novel.
He worked on it 9 full years and actually wrote about 400,000 words, from which he "took three-fourths and threw them away".
Still the novel seemed too long and too heavy to read, so that in 1934 when it was first published "Tender is the Night" sold much fewer copies than all of Fitzgerald's novels did before.
He came to the conclusion that a missing chronological order was to blame and set everything straight in a final version, which was published 1951.
Nevertheless, some newly published editions of Tender is the Night returned to the old order of 1934.
The edition I worked with is in chronological order, which helps to better comprehend the complex and muddled relations.
From our first glimpse of Dick Diver, he is performing; the others are acting as well, even as they watch.
This absorption in image manifests itself as a self-consciousness that permeates their interactions.
Nicole Diver, in particular, presents a fale that the reader is expected to peel away.
The dynamics of the novel depend on the tensions created by spectatorship and longing. At the center of the relationship between Nicole and Dick is his position as her doctor. This psychological observation, permissible because of his occupation, gives him an advantage over her.
Nicole, in her more limited sphere, does exactly the same.
The two women, related to one another through Dick, expend far less energy on observing one another than on watching him.
The tension created by these spectatorial connections creates a book that's by far more engaging than Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" (which is a marvelous novel in its own right).
It's a wonderfully entertaining and thoughtful work, one of my personal favorites.
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