Fitzgerald Scott

«El gran Gatsby fue un tour de force, pero Suave es la noche es una confesión de fe.» Francis Scott Fitzgerald Dick y Nicole Diver, una glamurosa pareja norteamericana, llegan a la Riviera francesa de los felices años veinte, época en que allí se daba cita la beautiful people de todo el mundo. Son ricos, inteligentes, elegantes, irresistiblemente atractivos. Pero algo se oculta tras su aparente perfección: Nicole tiene un secreto, Dick una debilidad, y juntos se dirigen irremediablemente hacia las rocas contra las que su aventura parece abocada a estrellarse. Suave es la noche es una de las cumbres de la obra de Francis Scott Fitzgerald, su novela más intensa y de mayor carga autobiográfica. En palabras de su esposa Zelda, «hay mucho de su propia vida en este atormentado retrato de opulencia destructiva e idealismo malogrado». ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "Tender is the night" is a novel published in 1934. Dick and Nicole Diver are a glamorous couple who take a villa in the South of France and surround themselves with a circle of friends, mainly Americans. Also staying at the resort are Rosemary Hoyt, a young actress, and her mother. Rosemary is sucked into the circle of the Divers; she becomes infatuated with Dick and is also adopted as a close friend by Nicole. Dick toys with, and later acts upon, the idea of an affair with Rosemary.

Suave es la noche

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If her person was property she coud exercise whatever advantage was inherent in its ownership.

He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.

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Her mother was her best friend and had put every last possibility into the guiding of her, not so rare a thing in the theatrical profession, but rather special in that Mrs. Elsie Speers was not recompensing herself for a defeat of her own.

He went back into his house and Nicole saw that one of his most characteristic moods was upon him, the excitement that swept everyone up into it and was inevitably followed by his own form of melancholy, which he never displayed but at which she guessed. This excitement about things reached an intensity out of proportion to their importance, generating a really extraordinary virtuosity with people. Save among a few of the tough-minded and perennially suspicious, he had the power of arousing a fascinated and uncritical love. The reaction came when he realized the waste and extravagance involved. He sometimes looked back with awe at the carnivals of affection he had given, as a general might gaze upon a massacre he had ordered to satisfy an impersonal blood lust.

"New friends," he said, as if it were an important point, “can often have a better time together than old friends.”

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane. Respect rather than fear. There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterwards for his moment of superiority, his moment of impressiveness.

He got up and, as he absorbed the situation, his self-knowledge assured him that he would undertake to deal with it—the old fatal pleasingness, the old forceful charm, swept back with its cry of "Use me!" He would have to go fix this thing that he didn’t care a damn about, because it had early become a habit to be loved, perhaps from the moment when he had realized that he was the last hope of a decaying clan.

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