Zelda Fitzgerald

One of the great literary curios of the twentieth century Save Me the Waltz is the first and only novel by the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. During the years when Fitzgerald was working on Tender is the Night, which many critics consider to be his masterpiece, Zelda Fitzgerald was preparing her own story, which strangely parallels the narrative of her husband, throwing a fascinating light on Scott Fitzgerald's life and work.In its own right, it is a vivid and moving story- the confessional of a famous glamour girl of the affluent 1920s and an aspiring ballerina which captures the spirit of an era.

Save Me the Waltz

F. Scott Fitzgerald

This evocative collection of love letters chronicles one of the most legendary romances of all time. Much has been written about the fascinating marriage between Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Through his alcoholism and her mental illness, his career highs (and lows) and her institutional confinement, their devotion to each other lasted for more than twenty-two years. Their myth conjures up images of gleaming hotel lobbies, white suits, flappers, lavish parties and smoky speakeasies - a whole world of nostalgia for the Jazz age and the expatriate life in Europe. The Fitzgeralds' courtship and marriage was so tightly linked to their books that it has often been hard to distinguish between life and literature. Now, as a result of the meticulous work of Fitzgerald scholars Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Barks, who have brought many previously unpublished letters together with those published separately in Scott and Zelda's collected writings, the story of their love can be given in their own letters. Introduced by an extensive narrative of the Fitzgeralds, they are illustrated throughout with a selection of both familiar and unpublished photographs.

The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda

Matthew Joseph Bruccoli

Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald has long been perceived as the tragic other half of the Scott and Zelda legend. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, this southern belle turned flapper was talented in dance, painting and writing but lived in the shadow of her husband's success. Her writing can be experienced on its own terms in Matthew Bruccoli's meticulously edited Zelda Fitzgerald: The Collected Writings.

The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald

“Pure and lovely…to read Zelda’s letters is to fall in love with her.” —The Washington Post Edited by renowned Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Barks, with an introduction by Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan, this compilation of over three hundred letters tells the couple's epic love story in their own words. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's devotion to each other endured for more than twenty-two years, through the highs and lows of his literary success and alcoholism, and her mental illness. In Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda, over 300 of their collected love letters show why theirs has long been heralded as one of the greatest love stories of the 20th century. Edited by renowned Fitzgerald scholars Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Barks, with an introduction by Scott and Zelda's granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan, this is a welcome addition to the Fitzgerald literary canon.

Resérvame el vals

Save Me the Last Waltz

Erzählungen

Himbeeren mit Sahne im Ritz

Sei per me la sola cosa al mondo. Lettere d'amore

Scandalabra

Jane Livingston

Peter Kurth

Reproduces paintings, drawings, constructions, and other memorabilia, accompanied by essays on Zelda's art and life

The Private World of Zelda Fitzgerald

Zelda, an Illustrated Life

Lançado pela Companhia das Letras em 1986, único romance de Zelda Fitzgerald volta às livrarias com novo projeto gráfico. Escrito em um hospital psiquiátrico em apenas seis semanas, Esta valsa é minha é, ao mesmo tempo, um texto autobiográfico, um relato de época e um irrecusável convite para penetrar um universo feminino, alegre e sensível, mas também carregado de desilusões. Num texto denso, Zelda reordena suas ideias através da personagem Alabama Knight: fala da infância à sombra de um pai austero, dos namoros e da adolescência no sul dos Estados Unidos no período entreguerras, da vida com um artista na era do jazz, do sonho de se tornar uma bailarina profissional, das viagens à Europa, das festas e do álcool. Imagens inusitadas e a visão de um vazio cortante pontuam a narrativa de Zelda, uma mulher fascinante que, a exemplo de seu alter ego, jamais se conformou em ser apenas esposa de F. Scott Fitzgerald. Enquanto ele trabalhava em Suave é a noite - que muitos críticos consideram sua obra-prima -, Zelda preparava sua própria versão daquela mesma história.

Esta valsa é minha

This comprehensive collection of Zelda Fitzgerald’s work—including her only published novel, Save Me the Waltz—puts the jazz-age heroine in an illuminating literary perspective. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald has long been an American cultural icon. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, this southern belle turned flapper was talented in dance, painting, and writing but lived in the shadow of her husband F. Scott Fitzgerald’s success. This meticulously edited collection includes Zelda’s only published novel, Save Me the Waltz, an autobiographical account of the Fitzgeralds’ adventures in Paris and on the Riviera; her celebrated farce, Scandalabra; eleven short stories; twelve articles; and a selection of letters to her husband, written over the span of their marriage, that reveals the couple’s loving and turbulent relationship. The Collected Writings affirms Zelda’s place as a writer and as a symbol of the Lost Generations as she struggled to define herself through her art.

Acordă-mi acest vals

Prominent literary society spouses F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzgerald famously chronicled their stormy marriage in Tender is the Night and Save Me the Waltz, respectively, providing conflicting yet remarkably consistent views of a marriage besieged by personal illness and neglect. A deliberately ambitious work, Tender is the Night is the compelling story of Dick Diver, a gifted psychoanalyst at the beginning of his career, his wife Nicole, one of his patients, and their holiday encounter with Rosemary Hoyt. Tender is the Night was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final, and most autobiographical, novel, capturing in fiction the complexity, frustration, and depth and ultimate destruction of love between Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, who was at the time of writing confined in a mental institution. Save Me the Waltz follows the story of southern belle Alabama Beggs who is married to the successful, but philandering, artist David Knight. Desperate for David’s attention and for success in her own right, Alabama devotes herself to building, and ultimately achieving, success as a ballerina. Written while Zelda Fitzgerald was being treated for schizophrenia at the Phipps Clinic, Save Me Waltz is evocative of high society in the Jazz Age and a woman’s quest to define herself both within and outside of her marriage. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Tender Is The Night and Save Me The Waltz

2020 Facsimile of the 1932 Edition. Save Me the Waltz is the first and only novel by the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. During the years when Fitzgerald was working on Tender Is the Night, Zelda Fitzgerald was preparing her own story, which parallels the narrative of her husband, throwing a fascinating light on F. Scott Fitzgerald's life and work. In its own right, it is a vivid and moving story: the confessions of a famous, slightly doomed glamour girl of the affluent 1920s, which captures the spirit of an era. It is a story of a beautiful Southern belle desperately determined to become a great ballerina and of her violent, passionate marriage to a famous artist, her love affair with a young French aviator on the Riviera, of wild parties, drunken brawls, insane escapades, the dissolute, destructive pleasures that gutted the lives of the most famous couple of the flaming twenties, as one headed toward alcoholism, the other toward madness.

Roman

Schenk mir den Walzer

La correspondencia «excepcionalmente conmovedora» (Booklist) de una pareja literaria icónica «Zelda escribe con una prosa directa y apasionada; Francis, con un estilo poético que recuerda a su ficción. El resultado es un relato fascinante de su historia de amor, lleno de anhelo y pasión, angustia y traición. [...] Estas cartas retratan una conexión singular y enigmática.» Paul Alexander, The Washington Post En 1918, en una fiesta en el club de campo de Montgomery (Alabama), se conocieron Francis Scott Fitzgerald, el joven escritor, y Zelda Sayre, una belleza sureña muy alejada de la imagen apocada de las mujeres de su época: audaz, original e inteligente, llegaría a convertirse en un icono de los años veinte. La pareja se casó en Nueva York en 1920, una semana después de la publicación de la primera novela de Scott, A este lado del paraíso, que se agotó en tres días. Con este rotundo éxito iniciaron una relación marcada por la celebridad, los excesos, la adicción de él al alcohol y el periplo de ella por distintas instituciones psiquiátricas. Excéntricos y hedonistas, llevaron al límite un amor errático y salvaje. Su correspondencia, que en buena parte se mantuvo inédita hasta la publicación de este libro, es la historia de una pasión enfermiza entre dos seres vulnerables que eran incapaces, muy a su pesar, de vivir el uno sin el otro. La crítica ha dicho: «Si leéis este libro que sea por Zelda: [...] una observadora divertida y dura de su propia vida cuyas cartas se leen como si fuesen pequeños monólogos. [...] No tiene opiniones convencionales ni usa expresiones hechas. Todo lo que escribe y piensa es original, mordaz y ligeramente inquietante.» Parul Sehgal, The New York Times «Una delicia literaria.» Silvia López, El País «Puro y hermoso. Leyendo las cartas de Zelda te enamoras de ella.» The Washington Post «Un retrato conmovedor de una historia de amor compleja y profunda.» Publishers Weekly «Una bendición para cualquier lector.» Kirkus Reviews «Esta correspondencia excepcionalmente conmovedora muestra a dos almas apasionadas y creativas que lucharon contra las despiadadas exigencias del imperativo artístico.» Booklist «Un retrato valioso y emotivo de su compleja relación.» The Baltimore Sun «Zelda escribe con una prosa directa y apasionada; Francis, con un estilo poético que recuerda a su ficción. El resultado es un relato fascinante de su historia de amor, lleno de anhelo y pasión, angustia y traición. [...] Estas cartas retratan una conexión singular y enigmática.» Paul Alexander, The Washington Post

Las cartas de amor entre Zelda y F. Scott Fitzgerald

Querido Scott, querida Zelda

Lasciami l'ultimo valzer

Zelda Sayre married F.Scott Fitzgerald in 1920. This collection of her writings demonstrates that she was a notable author herself, as well as a profound influence on Scott's work. The book has an introduction by the novelist Mary Gordon, and is edited and annotated by Matthew J. Bruccoli.

The Collected Writings

Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald è stata la musa dell’«età del jazz». Era l’incarnazione di tutto ciò che era moderno e nuovo, il prototipo che ogni ragazza spregiudicata degli anni venti doveva seguire. Diceva di sé: «Non avevo pensieri che per me stessa. Non provavo un briciolo di sentimento d’inferiorità, impaccio o dubbio, e non avevo il benché minimo principio morale». Pubblicato nel 1932, Lasciami l’ultimo valzer è l’unico romanzo che Zelda Fitzgerald abbia mai scritto. Ambientato tra l’Alabama, New York, la Francia e l’Italia, è la storia di Alabama Beggs, bella e anticonvenzionale fanciulla del Sud che sposa un artista, viaggia con lui in Europa e conduce una vita relativamente infelice, cercando di mettere alla prova i suoi tormentati talenti artistici. In gran parte dolorosamente autobiografico, il romanzo di Zelda racchiude episodi della sua vita coniugale, tanti dei quali andranno a costituire la materia di Tenera è la notte, capolavoro di Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Ispiratrice di molte delle protagoniste femminili dei romanzi del marito, quella di Zelda è una figura incantevole e tragica. I riflettori dei ruggenti anni venti che avevano incoronato Zelda e Scott come la coppia più scintillante di ogni serata newyorkese non riusciranno a rischiarare il nero vuoto, l’ansia di appagamento che Zelda cercherà tutta la vita di mettere a tacere attraverso la scrittura, la danza e la pittura e che la condurrà da ultimo alla schizofrenia. Lasciami l’ultimo valzer è assieme il tentativo disperato di dominare i propri demoni per non esserne la vittima e un sorprendente addentrarsi nella psiche dei personaggi, tanto da far dire al marito: «Non ho mai conosciuto una donna che si esprimesse con tanta grazia e originalità».

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