Tender is the Night (collected Works of Fitzgerald 2016)
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About This Novel
Fitzgerald is the most outstanding and popular writer in the United States in the 20th century. 2016 Coincides with the 120th anniversary of the author's birth. Shanghai Translation has launched a new edition of the collection, which is more comprehensive and detailed than Fitzgerald's works in the market. "Tender Is the Night" is the author's most painstaking autobiographical novel and one of the 100 greatest English works of the 20th century selected by Modern Library. This book is the fourth volume of Fitzgerald's collected works. Actress Rosemary meets the protagonist Dick Diver, a psychiatrist, on the beach in Cannes. His wife Nicole is his past patient and suffers from schizophrenia. He was gentle and courteous, and Rosemary quickly became smitten with him. Although she repeatedly expressed her feelings to him, Dick remained unmoved. After returning to Paris, his loyalty to his wife Nicole seemed unwavering, but in fact he was involuntarily attracted to Rosemary. In order to get rid of his fantasy about Rosemary, Dick began to write a monograph, trying to be as gentle and considerate as possible to Nicole, who had relapsed into hysteria and was still mentally unstable. While on vacation in the Alps, he met his former friend Franz and used part of his wife's considerable fortune to set up a clinic with him. At this time, Nicole received a letter accusing Dick of adultery with a patient. Her condition worsened and she deliberately crashed the car during an outing. Dick was extremely depressed and went on vacation alone to relax. On the way, he met Rosemary by chance, but only realized that their short-lived love was irretrievable. In the end, he drank to drown his sorrows, and his wife left him. He was once the epitome of this romantic era, but in the end he became a self-pitying loser. The novel witnesses the disillusionment of the "Jazz Age" in which Fitzgerald spent most of his life, and to a large extent achieves what the author himself calls "a thorough and painful understanding of life."
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