What is his best work?
>>7618193
I hate his short stories. Great Gatsby is a good if not somewhat simpleminded novel. This Side of Paradise is imo his strongest, you get the breakdown of a Gatsby-type in a much more personal manner (largely autobiographical)
How Petite Was My Manhood? Co-authored by Hemingway
Obviously Gatsby
>>7618196
Nah, Tender is the Night is his best work.
>>7618221
same anon. I'll admit I haven't read TitN. Based on what I think of Fitz is it worth checking out?
>>7618223
It's more like paradise than gatsby
>>7618227
well if that's true, and if it was written later than his first novel (Paradise), then perhaps it fixes what I saw as major problems in Paradise, being that there's so much going on around the narrator and it's like snow, half of it sticks to him and the other half floats right off, unimportant.
>>7618196
same poster as above. I just opened Great Gatsby again after a few years because I haven't read it in a while. Already I'm in shock. It's actually a rather well written book. Nick has a personality almost as fleshed out as Ishmael's in Moby-Dick. Perhaps more fleshed out. You can feel him passing judgement on everything and everyone he sees, and it's all that sort of 20s emersonian jazzy romantic judgement. Which given the opening of the book, is funny because he passes a LOT of shallow judgement.
Guess it's time for me to do a close reread. Good to read a book many many times at many different ages I suppose
>>7618340
rereading is severely undervalued imo
>>7618221
This
That last page is fucking heart-wrenching.
>>7618193
I'm about halfway through Ghe Beautiful and the Damned now and, while its decent, it's not Gatsby. I've always enjoyed his description of settings. NYC seems to have been the place to be in the 20s.
I think Hollywood and the marketplace of art ruined the man's writing. At least Graham Greene had the decency to label his non-literary work 'entertainment'
>>7619166
Non of graham green's work is literary though
>>7618200
underrated post
>>7619166
>I think Hollywood and the marketplace of art ruined the man's writing.
Been quite a while since I've seen an opinion this pretentious
