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F· Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
One of the most eminent writers of the twentieth century in America, singing gorgeous elegy for the "Jazz Age" with the temperament of a poet and dreamer. In just forty-four years of life, his suffering has gone through several ups and downs, and he has seen the world in Vanity Fair. At the end of the twentieth century, the authorities of American academia selected one hundred of the best novels in the century-old English river, condensing Fitzgerald's two brilliant novels, "The Great Gatsby" and "Gentle night", both on the list, with the former ranking higher in second place.
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Fitzgerald's most bloodthirst autobiographical novel
The Modern Library selects one of the 100 greatest English-language works of the twentieth century
Actress Ruth Marley meets the protagonist, Dick Daver, a psychiatrist, on the beach of Cannes. His wife, Nike, was a former patient of his own and suffered from schizophrenia. He was gentle and courteous, and Ruth Marley soon fell in love with him. Despite her repeated indications of her heart to him, Dick remained unmoved. After returning to Paris, his loyalty to his wife Nike seems unshakable, but in fact he can't help but be attracted to Ruth Marie. In order to get rid of his fantasies about Ruth Marley, Dick began to write a monograph, as gentle and considerate as possible to Nike, who had relapsed hysteria and was still mentally unstable. During his vacation in the Alps, he met his former friend Franz and used part of his wife's considerable fortune to run a clinic with him. At this point, Nicole receives a letter accusing Dick of adultery with the patient, and becomes ill and deliberately crashes the car during an outing. Frustrated, Dick goes on a vacation alone, encountering Rosemary on the way, only to realize that their short-lived love is irretrievable. Eventually he poured out his sorrows with wine, and his wife left him. He was the epitome of this romantic era, but eventually became a loser of self-pity. The novel bears witness to the disillusionment of the "Jazz Age" that Fitzgerald wasted most of his life, and to a large extent realizes what the author himself calls a "thorough and painful understanding of life."