Scott Fitzgerald

This Side Of Paradise Scott Fitzgerald

The figure of Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1890-1940), the most brilliant writer of the so-called "lost generation", seems drawn from his novels, which portrayed like no other the "era of jazz?" and the deep crisis of values experienced by American society throughout the 1920s, which culminated in the economic crash of 1929. Set in Princeton University during the years before the United States entered the Great War, On this side of Paradise? (1920) a novel that achieved since its appearance a brilliant success and presents the obsessions, characters and situations that would nurture Fitzgerald's later narratives: the man in search of his own personality, the conventional and bright world of the rich, the inexorable demolition of illusory values.