了不起的盖茨比 (诺顿文学解读系列) The Great Gatsby

基本信息

Edited by:David Alworth

Series:Norton Critical Editions

Format:Paperback / softback 584 pages

Publisher:WW Norton & Co

Imprint:WW Norton & Co

Edition:Critical ed

ISBN:9780393656596

Published:3 Dec 2021

Weight:488g

Dimensions:131 x 214 x 36 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

★ 20世纪全球百部英语小说之一

★ 村上春树喜爱的小说之一

★ 如果没有与《了不起的盖茨比》相遇，我写出来的小说会与现在完全不同，或者也许什么都不写。——村上春树

★《了不起的盖茨比》建立在“幻象的破灭”上。正因这样的幻象，世界才如此鲜艳。你无需理会真假，但求沾染那份魔术般的光彩就是了。——菲茨杰拉德

中西部小子盖茨比到东部闯荡一夕致富，他在自己的豪宅夜夜宴客，俨然慷慨荒唐的富豪大亨；他梦幻地看着纽约长岛上一座闪着绿光的灯塔，寻觅着梦寐以求的女人黛西。邻居尼克，眼看着盖茨比的宾客们接受他的招待却冷漠无情，眼看着盖茨比奋力追求那腐败的虚华。盖兹比的结局，让尼克对东部浮华的名流生活梦碎，宛如看着繁华楼起再看着它楼塌。

这个诺顿文学解读包括：

●小说的1925年美国初版文本。

●由David J. Alworth撰写的完整的导言、对文本的注释和解释性注解。

●异常丰富的背景材料，包括菲茨杰拉德伟大的小说的来源、他的账本和笔记本的节选、他的三个相关的短篇小说、二十二封精心挑选的有关《了不起的盖茨比》的信件和八个选段，其中四个是菲茨杰拉德关于爵士时代和美国现代主义的作品。

●广泛的批评评估，包括初版的评论和反应，菲茨杰拉德的复兴，以及重新考虑和阅读推荐。

●年表和精选书目

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

The 1925 first American edition text of the novel.

A full introduction, a note on the text and explanatory annotations by David J. Alworth.

An unusually rich selection of contextual materials, including Fitzgerald's sources for his greatest novel, excerpts from his ledger and notebooks, three of his related short stories, twenty-two carefully chosen letters concerning The Great Gatsby and eight selections-four of them by Fitzgerald-on the Jazz Age and American Modernism.

A wide range of critical assessments, covering initial reviews and reactions, Fitzgerald's revival, and reconsiderations and recent readings.

A chronology and selected bibliography.

About the Series

Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format-annotated text, contexts and criticism-helps students to better understand, analyse and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.

作者简介

F.S.菲茨杰拉德（Francis Scott Fitzgerald，1896—1940）

二十世纪美国杰出的作家之一。著有长篇小说《人间天堂》、《美与孽》、《了不起的盖茨比》、《夜色温柔》及一百七十多篇短篇小说。

《了不起的盖茨比》奠定了菲茨杰拉德在美国现代文学史上的地位，使其成为 “爵士时代”的代言人和“迷惘的一代”重要作家。学术界评选二十世纪百年百部英语小说，《了不起的盖茨比》位居第二。

菲茨杰拉德起落颠沛的人生正是盖茨比的写照，他对财富的想法与他对人生诗意浪漫的情感，透过盖茨比表现出美国文化一开始的勇敢追梦形象。他们之所以吸引人，不在于爵士时代的夜夜笙歌，不在于爱情的缥缈浪漫，而是盖茨比──或者说是菲茨杰拉德，对追求尘世华美抱着纯然美好的坚定信念。

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on September 24, 1896. After graduating from Princeton University, he served in the United States Army during World War I. Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise (1920), was a national bestseller, and he went on to publish three more complete novels and over one hundred popular short stories over the course of his lifetime. The Great Gatsby (1925), his best-known work, remains a timeless examination of social class, wealth, and the American Dream. Fitzgerald spent his final years writing screenplays in Los Angeles. He died of a heart attack on December 21, 1940 at the age of forty-four, leaving behind the unfinished novel The Love of the Last Tycoon. David J. Alworth is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities at Harvard, where he teaches in the Department of English, the Program in History and Literature, and the Program in American Studies. He also codirects Novel Theory Across the Disciplines, a seminar at Mahindra Humanities Center. He has published Site Reading: Fiction, Art, Social Form (2016) and The Look of the Book: Jackets, Covers, and Art at the Edges of Literature, with designer Peter Mendelsund (2020). Alworth's essays and articles have appeared in American Literary History, New Literary History, ELH, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and Public Books.