Hardcover, 230 pages
English language
Published by Heinemann Educational Publishers.
Evoking the mood of the American Twenties, and wealthy lives filled with excess and illusion, this is the story of Jay Gatsby's yearning for the beautiful Daisy.
Gatsby is the quintessential American tragedy. Someone grasping to belong to something that is ultimately meaningless.
Nick Carraway nos cuenta de cómo conoció a Gatsby, un hombre rico y enigmático que vive junto a él y da grandes fiestas a las que todo el mundo asiste, de quien todos hablan y al parecer nadie conoce muy bien. En cambio, Nick si tendrá la oportunidad de compartir con él, de ir investigando su pasado y su presente, siendo además un poco cómplice de sus intereses amorosos y todo lo que hay detrás de esa historia.
La verdad es que esperaba algo más. La novela relata un mundo donde un hombre se propone surgir y ganar dinero con un fin muy definido, “ser digno” de su gran amor, un amor que posiblemente ha existido únicamente en su corazón y en su mente, con consecuencias bastante inesperadas.
I'm really not much of a short story person. If they all have something in common or something connecting them in some way – for instance, they all have the same author or topic – that I might really enjoy them, but for the most part, they're not really my cup of tea.
This is a bunch of classics by classic authors, and they really DON'T have anything in common. I really liked one or two of them, but for the most part, it was only okay. But I am looking forward to my NEXT book – about global warming and the devastation potentially caused by it.
Update: OK meh is my bad.
Read for HS, I think, around 1980. Meh. Sorry. There must be so many titles that cover that era in a richer and more satisfying way, but I guess these short books are easier to fit into a school curriculum.
Honestly? I don't know. I did like it, but I have no idea why. Probably mostly because of the mood and the writing (which are not necessarily what catch my attention usually, they're more "nice to have"s, as far as I'm concerned.
Man bija atzīmēts, ka esmu so grāmatu jau lasījusi un novērtējusi zemu. Neatcerejos neko. Bet noteikti “ir maiga nakts..” man patika daudz labāk. Laikam līdz galam Ficdžeraldu nesaprotu.
Ridiculously over-rated.
