The Great Gatsby

《了不起的盖茨比》最耐人寻味的，或许正是那份令人不解的痴。读者反复追问：盖茨比究竟爱黛西什么？答案藏在那句“她的声音里满是金钱”里——它不是简单的拜金批判，而是一个看穿了一切的人，偏偏选择为幻象孤注一掷。书中最打动人的，是盖茨比那“罕见而令人安心”的微笑，以及他多年后为自己流下的眼泪：他哭的从来不是黛西，而是那个再也回不来的、充满劲头的旧我。菲茨杰拉德以冷峻而华丽的笔调，写尽了一个男人逆流而上、却不断退回过去的徒劳。它适合所有曾为一个“绿灯”拼命、又最终懂得放手的人——那盏灯近在眼前，却早已丢在身后。

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.[1] Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby—his most famous—and Tender Is the Night. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age. The Great Gatsby has been the basis for numerous films of the same name, spanning nearly 90 years; 1926, 1949, 1974, 2000, and an upcoming 2013 adaptation. In 1958 his life from 1937–1940 was dramatized in Beloved Infidel.