Francis Scott Fitzgerald was a brilliant american writer whom The Great Gatsby is probably the most famous novel. He was recognised as one of the greatest litterary figures of the 20th century. Married to Zelda whom he had a tempetuous relationship with, they were both considered as members of the Lost Generation. He was a very tortured man and was well-known for his way of life. He was regarded as a legend of american literature.
The great Gatsby, probably his masterpiece, depicts the mysterious Gatsby, a gloomy and delluded self-made man desperatly in love with a woman already married. The author plays with enchantement and leads us to consider love in a tragic way, to draw our attention to humanity and universal troubles. Fitzgerald focuses on the american way of life, its joys and its excesses during the Jazz Age.
Reading Fitzgerald is like entering another world that underlines the rise and the fall of the American idealism in a poetic vein. He tells us about the rich and young post-war generation in the 1920's, nights in clubs, summers spent in France on the Mediterranean coast, their luxuous excursions in Europe and their sentimental troubles.
Fitzgerald knew a glittering sucess but led a tragic life. He inspired lots of writers who found in his works a specific enchantment that captivates the reader everytime one opens his books.
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