The Great Gatsby

Resumen del libro

For generations of enthralled readers, F. Scott Fitzgerald's mysterious millionaire, Jay Gatsby, has come to embody all the glamour and decadence of the Roaring Twenties. Gatsby emerges as if from nowhere, evading questions about his past and throwing dazzling parties sparkling with champagne and jazz at his luxurious Long Island mansion. Nick Carraway, a young man who has moved in next door, is fascinated by his oddly detached neighbor, and by his discovery that Gatsby is motivated by a single-minded quest to regain his long-lost love, Daisy Buchanan. Nick finds something both appalling and appealing about the intensity of Gatsby's ambition to reinvent himself. But Daisy and her wealthy husband are cynical and careless people, and as Gatsby's dream collides with reality, Nick is witness to the violence and tragedy that result. The Great Gatsby's remarkable staying power, nearly a century after its publication, is owed both to the lyrical freshness of its storytelling and to the way that it illuminates the hollow core of the glittering American dream.

Biografía del autor

Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896 1940) fue uno de los escritores más influyentes de la literatura estadounidense del siglo XX. Formado en Princeton, orientó su vida hacia la creación literaria tras un breve período en el ejército durante la Primera Guerra Mundial. Con A este lado del paraíso (1920) inició una carrera fulgurante que lo convirtió en el principal cronista de la Era del jazz . Autor de obras emblemáticas como El gran Gatsby, Hermosos y malditos y Suave es la noche, exploró con extraordinaria lucidez las tensiones entre deseo, clase social y desengaño en la modernidad norteamericana. Su estilo preciso y elegante, unido a una sensibilidad única para captar el espíritu de su tiempo, lo ha consagrado como una figura central en el canon literario contemporáneo.