Format:
165 Seiten :
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ISBN:
978-0-300-22890-8
Content:
Renowned critic Greil Marcus takes on the fascinating legacy of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. An enthralling parable (or a cheap metaphor) of the American Dream as a beckoning finger toward a con game, a kind of virus infecting artists of all sorts over nearly a century, Fitzgerald's story has become a key to American culture and American life itself. Marcus follows the arc of The Great Gatsby from 1925 into the ways it has insinuated itself into works by writers such as Philip Roth and Raymond Chandler; found echoes in the work of performers from Jelly Roll Morton to Lana Del Rey; and continued to rewrite both its own story and that of the country at large in the hands of dramatists and filmmakers from the 1920s to John Collins's 2006 Gatz and Baz Luhrmann's critically reviled (here celebrated) 2013 movie version--the fourth, so far
Note:
Subway -- A Patriotic Swerve -- A Book Everyone Has Heard Of -- Reading the Book -- The Ferment -- At the Movies -- "He too was a Great Gatsby" -- Fable
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-300-25250-7
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
Keywords:
1896-1940 The great Gatsby Fitzgerald, F. Scott
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Rezeption
Author information:
Marcus, Greil, 1945-,
