I think you might enjoy my book *Bright Star, Green Light*, which shows how Scott Fitz - especially in *Gatsby* - reincarnates Keats, nightingale and all.
I will say this about the book Gatsby. it is a book for young people. I loved it in my twenties and thirties. Now that I'm in my early sixties, it strikes me as the gorgeous work of a very young man who has not experienced very much of life. The characters are all young with the exception of Meyer Wolfsheim who is there as the anti-Semitic trope for Gatsby's corruption.
It’s funny to see a still from the 1949 film adaptation. Which basically invents a new and pretty ridiculous narrative. Alan Ladd is good, Betty Field is good, but the film is neither here nor there. But GATSBY can’t really be adapted, no matter what the circumstance, whether it’s a Robert Evans super production or a 7-hour stage adaptation within an impromptu reading or a Baz Luhrmann extravaganza. It’s not a romance. It’s not a spectacle. Like all really great work, it’s not merely “about” something, it IS something.
I think you might enjoy my book *Bright Star, Green Light*, which shows how Scott Fitz - especially in *Gatsby* - reincarnates Keats, nightingale and all.
I will say this about the book Gatsby. it is a book for young people. I loved it in my twenties and thirties. Now that I'm in my early sixties, it strikes me as the gorgeous work of a very young man who has not experienced very much of life. The characters are all young with the exception of Meyer Wolfsheim who is there as the anti-Semitic trope for Gatsby's corruption.
A beautiful and articulate essay.
It’s funny to see a still from the 1949 film adaptation. Which basically invents a new and pretty ridiculous narrative. Alan Ladd is good, Betty Field is good, but the film is neither here nor there. But GATSBY can’t really be adapted, no matter what the circumstance, whether it’s a Robert Evans super production or a 7-hour stage adaptation within an impromptu reading or a Baz Luhrmann extravaganza. It’s not a romance. It’s not a spectacle. Like all really great work, it’s not merely “about” something, it IS something.