The Last Tycoon

Resumen del libro

Their eyes 'met and tangled. For an instant they made love as no one ever dares to do after. Their glance was slower than an embrace, more urgent than a call'.


A novel of the glittering decadence of Hollywood in its heyday, this was Fitzgerald's last work and he died without completing it. The novel's tragic tycoon hero is Stahr. Caught in the crossfire of his own effortless cynicism and his silent, secret vulnerability, Stahr inhabits a world dominated by business, alcohol and promiscuity. If there is a moral or social necessity to film-making in this West Coast never-never land, Stahr does not always believe in it. If there is love he does not always see it. The sharpness of Fitzgerald's prose, the steely simplicity of his style, give a cutting edge to this study of Hollywood in the thirties, from which Fitzgerald draws a painfully bitter-sweet love affair and bids his own poignant farewell to the Great 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.