书名：Tender is the Night 夜色温柔 菲茨杰拉德作品系列

作者：Scott F. Fitzgerald

出版社名称：Alma Books

出版时间：2012

语种：英语

ISBN：9781847492593

商品尺寸：13.2 x 2.2 x 19.7 cm

包装：平装

《夜色温柔》的主要内容介绍了强烈的怀旧情绪、悔恨心理、失落的希望、破灭的幻想、人格的分裂。

是一部带有很强的自传性的小说，探索了一种酷似作者所经历的感情与精神的崩溃过程。

《夜色温柔》的故事发生在欧洲，但小说展现的仍是美国“爵士乐时代”的社会生活。迪克·戴弗是一个来自美国中西部的年轻有为的精神医生，在瑞士的苏黎世进行精神病的病理研究。他参与了对富家女尼尔科·沃伦的治疗，尼尔科是因百万富翁的父亲与她的关系而患上精神病的。在治疗过程中尼科尔爱上了迪克，迪克不顾他人的劝阻娶了尼科尔。婚后，他将全部的精力花在照顾有病的妻子上，自己的事业则逐渐荒疏。尼科尔在迪克的悉心照料下慢慢康复，过上了正常的生活，而迪克却身心疲惫不堪重负日趋消沉下去。出于苦闷和无聊，迪克与一个名叫萝丝玛丽的女孩产生了爱情纠葛，而尼科尔则同阔少爷汤米寻欢作乐。最后，尼科尔同迪克离婚，嫁给汤米；迪克孓然一身返回美国，在他的家乡小镇以一个普通医生的身份行医了结余生。

While holidaying at a villa on the French Riviera, Dick and Nicole Diver, a wealthy American couple, meet the young film star Rosemary Hoyt. Her arrival causes a stir in their social circle and exposes the cracks in their fragile marriage. As their relationship unravels, glimpses of their troubled past emerge, and a series of disturbing events unfolds.

Peopled by an unforgettable cast of aristocrats and high-fliers, Tender Is the Night is at once a scathing critique of the materialism and hypocrisy of the Roaring Twenties and a poignant and sensitive account of personal tragedy and disillusionment.

弗朗西斯·斯科特·基·菲茨杰拉德（Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald，1896年9月24日－1940年12月21日），20世纪美国作家、编剧。

菲茨杰拉德1896年9月24日生于明尼苏达州圣保罗市。父亲是家具商。他年轻时试写过剧本。读完高中后考入普林斯顿大学。在校时曾自组剧团，并为校内文学刊物写稿。后因身体欠佳，中途辍学。1917年入伍，终日忙于军训，未曾出国打仗。退伍后坚持业余写作。1920年出版了长篇小说《人间天堂》，从此出了名，小说出版后他与吉姗尔达结婚。婚后携妻寄居巴黎，结识了安德逊、海明威等多位美国作家。1925年《了不起的盖茨比》问世，奠定了他在现代美国文学史上的地位，成了20年代“爵士时代”的发言人和“迷惘的一代”的代表作家之一。菲兹杰拉德成名后继续勤奋笔耕，但婚后妻子讲究排场，后来又精神失常，挥霍无度，给他带来极大痛苦。他经济上入不敷出，一度去好莱坞写剧本挣钱维持生计。1936年不幸染上肺病，妻子又一病不起，使他几乎无法创作，精神濒于崩溃，终日酗酒。1940年12月21日并发心脏病，死于洛杉矶，年仅44岁。

菲兹杰拉德不仅写长篇小说，短篇小说也颇有特色。除上述两部作品外，主要作品还有《夜色温柔》（1934）和《末代大亨的情缘》（1941）。他的小说生动地反映了20年代“美国梦”的破灭，展示了大萧条时期美国上层社会“荒原时代”的精神面。

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and short story writer. He was best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age—a term which he popularized. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four collections of short stories, and 164 short stories. Although he temporarily achieved popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald only received wide critical and popular acclaim after his death. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.

In the 1920s, Fitzgerald frequented Europe, where he was influenced by the modernist writers and artists of the "Lost Generation" expatriate community, particularly Ernest Hemingway. His second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), propelled him into the New York City elite. To maintain his lifestyle during this time, he also wrote several stories for magazines. His third novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), was inspired by his rise to fame and relationship with Zelda. Although it received mixed reviews, The Great Gatsby is now widely praised, with some even labeling it the "Great American Novel". While Zelda was placed at a mental institute for her schizophrenia, Fitzgerald completed his final novel, Tender Is the Night (1934).