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Your Laziness Makes Me Sad: Fitzgerald's Letter to His Daughter Author: [US] FS Fitzgerald/Francis Scott Fitzgerald Publisher: Sichuan People's Publishing House
Your Laziness Makes Me Sad: Fitzgerald's Letter to His Daughter Author: [US] FS Fitzgerald/Francis Scott Fitzgerald Publisher: Sichuan People's Publishing House
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The young genius who wrote The Great Gatsby → the middle-aged “worker” with a lot of debt
Hemingway's famous couple × Murakami Haruki's literary idol × Zhang Ailing's literary master
Father of an adolescent daughter
✉️ Introduction
Edited by Fitzgerald's biographer and friend, Andrew Turnbull, this book contains letters Fitzgerald wrote to his only daughter Scottie (1921-1986), covering his daughter's adolescence from 1933 to his death in 1940, from the age of 12 to 19.
✉️ Editor's Recommendation
◎ He was originally a literary genius who wrote many classics such as "The Great Gatsby" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". His legend is everywhere in the literary world:
★ Hemingway’s famous couple – “Official comments” from his wife (Zelda Fitzgerald):
My husband and Hemingway! They look like a couple together!
★ Haruki Murakami’s writing idol× A literary master admired by Eileen Chang.
★ Defined the legendary "Jazz Age" in American history.
◎ With his wife having a mental breakdown and his daughter still young, he became "a candle burning at both ends"
——Consumed in trivial matters, struggling under heavy burdens, the once high-spirited "young genius" fell into the "collapse era" of middle age.
◆ He emerged from the literary world at the age of 24, spent money lavishly, indulged in pleasure, and reached the peak of his life;
◆ At the age of 34, he was heavily in debt and suffering from illness. He was forced to live apart from his wife and daughter and became a "Hollywood worker";
◆ He died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 44. His masterpiece had not yet been recognized. He held the "cheapest funeral".
"He gave me a golden childhood until the world started to weigh on him, when I was just eleven."
—Daughter Scottie
◎ When a father with a "middle-aged breakdown" meets a "rebellious young daughter" - how should the "heartbroken" father respond?
It is close to life, sincere in emotion, and full of golden sentences that make people laugh.
★ Sometimes humorous and doting: My mind is empty today. It seems that I have been writing a story for the Saturday Evening Post since I got up. I thought of you, and when I thought of you, I was full of joy.
★ Worry from time to time: We have the same ideas about 90% of things - except your laziness which makes me worried.
★ Sometimes I nag helplessly: "Prophet Dad!" I can hear your sneer. God knows how much I wish I could not always see through your future.
★ Tell you sincerely from time to time: I think you should accept the sadness and misery in the world we live in with a certain vigor.
◎ Includes real photos, hand-painted illustrations, and a kraft paper file bag structure cover design, leading readers to immerse themselves in the world of Fitzgerald and his daughter's letters.
✉️ Celebrity recommendation
Fitzgerald's talent is like the colorful patterns on a butterfly's wings, completely innate.
— Ernest Hemingway
When many famous writers of Fitzgerald's generation are gradually forgotten, Fitzgerald will still be a great writer loved by people because he created a new era and a new generation for people.
— Gertrude Stein
If I were asked to choose a book that I must read in my life, I would choose The Great Gatsby without hesitation. If I hadn't encountered this work, I even think that the novels I wrote would be completely different from the ones I have now.
—— Haruki Murakami
Fitzgerald is the American writer I admire most. He is a genius with superb writing skills. His works have strong characteristics of the times, clear narration, elegant style and colorful words and sentences.
—— Zhang Ailing
About the Author
◎ Author:
FS Fitzgerald (Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940), one of the most outstanding American writers in the 20th century, sang a gorgeous elegy for the "Jazz Age" with the temperament of a poet and dreamer. In his short 44 years of life, his life experienced many ups and downs, and he saw the fickleness of the world in the world of fame and fortune. He wrote 4 novels and 150 short stories in his life, and his representative works include "The Great Gatsby", "Tender Is the Night" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". His novels vividly reflect the collapse of the "American Dream" in the 1920s and show the spiritual side of the "wasteland era" of the American upper class during the Great Depression.
◎ Editor:
Andrew Turnbull (1922-1970) was born in Baltimore, USA in 1922 and graduated from Princeton University in 1942. In 1954, he received a doctorate in European history from Harvard University and taught at MIT and Brown University. He has been a friend of the Fitzgerald family since childhood and mentioned Andrew many times in the letters included in this book. In 1962, he wrote and published the biography "Scott Fitzgerald".
Translator:
Jiang Hui was born in Taizhou, Jiangsu Province. She has worked as a reporter and editor. Her works have won the Zhao Chaogou Journalism Award. She currently lives in Nanjing and is a full-time translator and writer.
◎ Illustrator:
YiLi, a Chinese cartoonist and graphic designer, graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His representative works include "David" and "Yoga Mat".
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