"Fitzgerald's work has always deeply moved me," writes John T.
Irwin. "And this is as true now as it was fifty years ago when I
first picked up The Great Gatsby. I can still remember the
occasions when I first read each of his novels; remember the time,
place, and mood of those early readings, as well as the way each
work seemed to speak to something going on in my life at that
moment. Because the things that interested Fitzgerald were the
things that interested me and because there seemed to be so many
similarities in our backgrounds, his work always possessed for me a
special, personal authority; it became a form of wisdom, a way of
knowing the world, its types, its classes, its individuals." In his
personal tribute to Fitzgerald's novels and short stories, Irwin
offers an intricate vision of one of the most important writers in
the American canon. The third in Irwin's trilogy of works on
American writers, F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction resonates back
through all of his previous writings, both scholarly and poetic,
returning to Fitzgerald's ongoing theme of the twentieth-century
American protagonist's conflict between his work and his personal
life. This conflict is played out against the typically American
imaginative activity of self-creation, an activity that involves a
degree of theatrical ability on the protagonist's part as he must
first enact the role imagined for himself, which is to say, the
self he means to invent. The work is suffused with elements of both
Fitzgerald's and Irwin's biographies, and Irwin's immense erudition
is on display throughout. Irwin seamlessly ties together details
from Fitzgerald's life with elements from his entire body of work
and considers central themes connected to wealth, class, work,
love, jazz, acceptance, family, disillusionment, and life as
theatrical performance.
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