FScott Fitzgerald 菲茨杰拉德.ppt

* * * * * * * * * F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)弗·司各特·菲茨杰拉德 The Great Gatsby《了不起的盖茨比》 Picture of the author Book cover of the 1st edition Life Birthplace: St. Paul, Minnesota Family Background: unsuccessful upper-class father, socially prominent and genteelly poor family; maternal grandfather’s fortune supporting him through good education. Education: Princeton without graduation. Working Experiences: joined the army, wrote for magazines. Tragic, entangled married life with Zelda Literary Achievements 1920: This Side of Paradise《人间天堂》 1921: Flappers and Philosophers 《轻佻女和哲学家》(short story collection) 1922: Tales of the Jazz Age《爵士时代的故事》(short story collection) 1922: The Beautiful and the Damned 《漂亮冤家》 1925: The Great Gatsby《了不起的盖茨比》 1926: All the Sad Young Men《一代悲哀的年轻人》 1934: Tender is the Night《夜色温柔》 1941: The Last Tycoon 《最后的大亨》 Crack-up 《崩溃》 Position and contribution Chronicler of the 1920s America, the spokesman of the Jazz age. Insider who lived out that style of life with ardor. A detached observer who recognized the frightening side of that life and gave it an artistic expression. Both the lyricist and demystifier of the modern American dream. Historical and cultural contexts The Roaring 20s 喧嚣的20年代 (The Jazz Age爵士乐时代） Thriving economy: easy money, ample opportunity, prevailing materialism Pleasure seeking: extravagant parties, Jazz music, heavy drinking, fast racing cars Spiritual sterility “the Jazz age,” denoted an era of ragtime, jazz, stylish automobiles, and uninhibited young women with bobbed hair and short skirts. It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire.“ (Fitzgerald,Echoes of the Jazz Age) The Lost Generation is a term applied to a group of disillusioned American writers of the post WWI era who rebelled against former ideals and ethic values by taking despair and cynical hedonism and wrote about the nihilistic spirit of modern time with courage and purpose. The term is c