內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介:A fascinating study in self-satire that brings to life the Hollywood years of F. Scott Fitzgerald The setting: Hollywood: the character: Pat Hobby, a down-and-out screenwriter trying to break back into show business, but having better luck getting into bars. Written between 1939 and 1940, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was working for Universal Studios, the seventeen Pat Hobby stories were first published in Esquire magazine and present a bitterly humorous portrait of a once-successful writer who becomes a forgotten hack on a Hollywood lot. This was not art Pat Hobby often said, this was an industry where whom you sat with at lunch was more important than what you dictated in your office. The Pat Hobby sequence, as Arnold Gingrich writes in his introduction, is Fitzgerald's last word from his last home, for much of what he felt about Hollywood and about himself permeated these stories.
作者簡(jiǎn)介:
F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of the major American writers of the twentieth century -- a figure whose life and works embodied powerful myths about our national dreams and aspirations. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, attended Princeton University, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. He left us one sure masterpiece, The Great Gatsby; a near-masterpiece, Tender Is the Night; and a gathering of stories and essays that together capture the essence of the American experience. His writings are insightful and stylistically brilliant; today he is admired both as a social chronicler and a remarkably gifted artist.
F. Scott Fitzgerald 弗·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德,美國(guó)小說(shuō)家。他年輕時(shí)試寫(xiě)過(guò)劇本。讀完高中后考入普林斯頓大學(xué)。1920年出版了長(zhǎng)篇小說(shuō)《人間天堂》,從此出了名,小說(shuō)出版后他與澤爾達(dá)結(jié)婚?;楹髷y妻寄居巴黎,結(jié)識(shí)了安德遜、海明威等多位美國(guó)作家。1925年《了不起的蓋茨比》問(wèn)世,奠定了他在現(xiàn)代美國(guó)文學(xué)史上的地位,成了20年代“爵士時(shí)代”的發(fā)言人和“迷惘的一代”的代表作家之一。
作品:
劇本:《美女和被詛咒的人》、《了不起的蓋茨比》、《生死同心》、《女人》、《亂世佳人》、《居里夫人》、 《夜色溫柔》 、《我最后一次見(jiàn)到巴黎》、《綺夢(mèng)初艷》等。
長(zhǎng)篇小說(shuō):《人間天堂》(1920)、《美麗與毀滅》(1922)、《了不起的蓋茨比》(1925)、《夜色溫柔》(1934)、《最后一個(gè)大亨》(1941)等。
短篇小說(shuō)集:《飛女郎與哲學(xué)家》(1920)、《爵士時(shí)代的故事》(1922)、《那些憂傷的年輕人》(1926)、《早晨的起床號(hào)》(1935)等。
文集:My Lost City(暫無(wú)中文譯名)收錄名篇《崩潰》。