Fitzgerald's TN

[Paul Mackin]

On 10/4/2012 9:27 AM, Keith Davis wrote:
> That settles it. When I finish Blood Meridian, and complete the course 
> of anti-depressants, TN is next.

Max Perkins of Scribner's helped make all the books better but on TN it 
was an uphill struggle.  Scott was already too far gone. Even so he 
could still, as they say, really write--the reason why the novel is 
still so highly rated.

Here's a letter to Fitz from Perkins on Gatsby.

http://fitzgerald.narod.ru/critics-eng/perkins-ggletter.html

P

>
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 7:07 AM, alice wellintown 
> <alicewellintown at gmail.com <mailto:alicewellintown at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     so, though I've read Fitz more times than I care to admit, and Gatsby
>     more times than almost any other book,  I was prompted to open TN and
>     take a close reading look into how it is constructed. More on this
>     later...but the names, a Mr Flesh, a couple of Neverquivers, Diver,
>     and names that read like advetisments, an characters who comment on
>     the jingles of names. So, nothing wrong with stupid names. Shakespeare
>     was not afraid of them. Pynchon only pushes them to new lows, as in
>     low puns, a comic tradition.
>
>     The faces; the sculpted bodies and faces are also there, not as in
>     Hemingway or Faulkner.
>
>
>
>
> -- 
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