5/28/2023 0 Comments So We Read On by Maureen Corrigan![]() ![]() First of all, Fitzgerald was in New York, and he was friendly with people like H.L. To one extent or another, we have seen Jay Gatsby and he is us: reaching out toward a green light on a shore we may never reach, teetering on the edge of the dark water of the American Dream.Ī: Right. ![]() In "So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures," Corrigan examines the multifaceted phenomenon of the novel, including its creation, its reception over the decades, its place in world literature and its continued, perhaps increasing relevance in an America still bound and confounded by class. But for those who come to "Gatsby" as adults, for the first time or the second - or, as in the case of Georgetown University professor and book critic Maureen Corrigan, on so many occasions that she's lost count - Fitzgerald's slender opus reveals itself as perhaps the greatest of the great: brief yet weighty, packed with meaning yet easy to digest, its pessimism belied by sentences that shimmer like gems on the page. As a staple of high school curricula, the novel has been widely read and, nearly as widely, dismissed by generations of teenagers who can't understand what all the fuss is about. ![]() Scott Fitzgerald, occupies an oddly precarious position in the ranks of Great American Novels. But "The Great Gatsby," the 1925 masterpiece by F. Its greatness is right there in the title, not to mention on every page. ![]()
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