什么是费兹杰罗

Fitzgerald, F(rancis) Scott (Key)

美国小说及短篇故事作家。曾在普林斯顿大学学习，但因成绩不好被退学。1920年与阿拉巴马州的法官的女儿姗尔达.赛瑞（1900～1948）结婚。他的作品包括了早期的《人间天堂》（1920）、《漂亮的冤家》（1922）、故事集《爵士乐时代的故事》（1922）和《所有悲伤的年轻人》（1926）。他最杰出的作品《大亨小传》（1925）是一部描述美国人财富和堕落的故事，被认为是20世纪最伟大的小说之一。1924年他和姗尔达移居法国，此後，由於妻子得精神病，他本人酗酒过度，生活极为不幸。1934年发表的《夜未央》。1937年费兹杰罗移居好莱坞从事电影剧本写作；1939年开始写作《最後大亨》，一部以好莱坞为背景，描写美国生活的希望与理想的故事，但尚未完成，他便因心脏病去世。尽管当时流行的思潮是幻想破灭，实际上这是一个充满希望与热情的时代。而费兹杰罗比当时其他一切作家更能反映1920年代的时代精神与思想感情。他是1920年代美国最有代表性的作家。

1896～1940年

Fitzgerald, F(rancis) Scott (Key)

U.S. novelist and short-story writer. Born in St. Paul, Minn., he attended Princeton Univ., but dropped out with bad grades. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre (1900-1948), daughter of a respected Alabama judge. His works, including the early novels This Side of Paradise (1920) and The Beautiful and Damned (1922) and the story collections Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) and All the Sad Young Men (1926), capture the Jazz Age's vulgarity and dazzling promise. His brilliant The great Gatsby (1925), a story of American wealth and corruption, was eventually acclaimed one of the century's greatest novels. In 1924 Scott and Zelda became part of the expatriate community on the French Riviera, the setting of Tender Is the Night (1934). His fame and prosperity proved disorienting to them both, and he became seriously alcoholic. Zelda never fully recovered from a mental breakdown in 1932, and spent most of her remaining years in a sanitarium. In 1937 Scott moved to Hollywood to write film scripts; the experience inspired the unfinished The Last Tycoon (1941). He died of a heart attack at 44.