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When Nabokov met a Fitzgerald biographer: he said " The Great Gatsby--no; Tender is the Night--beautiful." He may have used another word for no....

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On Oct 1, 2012, at 1:21 PM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:

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> > Gatsby is a marvel, but it's one small book.
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> While Gatsby always appeared symbolically overloaded to me - "the green light at the end of the pier" and everything -, I consider Tender is the Night to be one of the best American novels ever. Fitzgerald's skills do better unfold on the long distance. The rhythm, the experience of time. Here the author treats some of his basic themes like love, addiction and psychosis more convincingly than anywhere else in his work. And the book really breathes the Mediterranean aroma. Although I read the novel carefully several times, I still don't know how Fitzgerald manages to evoke that positive feeling in the reader (the tenderness the title mentions) until the very end despite everything - the second water-ski scene is simply heartbreaking - falling into pieces. It's really magic (I know no other word here). Together with Gravity's Rainbow and Moby Dick it's my favorite American novel.   
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> What is it that you don't like about it?
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> On 01.10.2012 00:15, malignd at aol.com wrote:
>> It's Faulkner for the 20th century; for the first half, in a rout.  Hemingway wrote great stories (so did Faulkner) but only one great novel, and that was his first.  Try to read Across the River and Through the Trees without laughing.  Gatsby is a marvel, but it's one small book. Kerouac?  Please ....
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