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Tender Is the Night is the fourth and final novel completed by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in French Riviera during the twilight of the Jazz Age, the 1934 novel chronicles the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychiatrist, and his wife, Nicole, who is one of his patients.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 1934
- The Essence of It All
- The Evolution of The Riviera
- Setting The Scene
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- Born Tricksters
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- Spiraling Into Madness
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On July 28, 1962, Gerald Murphy, the inspiration for Dr. Richard Diver’s character from «Tender is the Night», gave an interview to «The New Yorker». Gerald had outlived Fitzgerald, who died of a heart attack in 1940, by twenty-four years. He recalled his first impressions of the book, compared to his feelings in his older age: «It was strange for ...
Towards the end of the 18th century, the once desolate land from Saint-Tropez to the French-Italian border, where the tanned fishermen and lean olive oil makers barely made ends meet, transformed into a privileged holiday destination of the British aristocracy. This happened thanks to the travel notes of Englishman Tobias Smolett, dated 1765. The r...
Mr. Gerald Clery Murphy was the son of an industrial tycoon from Boston, and owner of the Mark Cross Company trading in genuine leather products. Back at Yale University where Gerald was only admitted on his third attempt, he met a young musician Cole Porter, who composed such jazz masterpieces as «I love you», «Night and Day» and «Begin the Beguin...
“I have to stand out in everything that I do… I must assert myself… I cannot live without being loved, act without being praised…” — Fitzgerald confessed in 1935 to his secretary, Laura Guthrie. Ever since his childhood, Mr. Francis Scott Fitzgerald always wanted to become wealthy — very wealthy. All the other matters of this world — war, love, rel...
Both Francis and Zelda had always been mischievous. Back in grade school, the young Francis, tired of his teachers in the Catholic college, would amuse himself making prank calls. He would call a leg prosthetic firm and choke with laughter while keenly asking whether their products were squeaky or not. The «fidgety» Zelda, as her parents lovingly r...
It was not the Murphy’s connection to the art world that drew Fitzgerald’s attention; it was the couple’s wealth (Sara alone inherited $7,000 per year). The heroine of his novel «Tender is the Night» does not buy paint and canvas on the Riviera, but a stunning novelty of the season, an insanely expensive inflatable crocodile. Thence the scene of Ni...
In August 1924, Gerald and Sara stayed in Hotel du Cap during the renovation of their Villa America. One of those nights, Francis knocked on their door. He was pale, a candle trembling in his hand, his eyes looked wild: «I think my Zelda is ill. Not deliberately ill, she cannot do anything about it.» They ran into her room and saw an empty jar of s...
And what about Gerald and Sara Murphy? In 1934, during the height of the Great Depression, Gerald heavy heartedly took over his father’s company in America. He was relieved of this burden in 1956, to his greatest relief. He died in 1964 in New York. In his memoirs, he mainly mentions friends, art and relationships from the 1920s and 30s, or the «ja...
Oct 19, 2011 · Tender Is the Night, semiautobiographical novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1934. It is the story of a psychiatrist who marries one of his patients; as she slowly recovers, she exhausts his vitality until he is, in Fitzgerald’s words, un homme épuisé (“a used-up man”).
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 1934
Set in France and Italy in the 1920s, it tells the story of two wealthy American expats, Dick and Nicole Diver (largely based on the author and his wife Zelda), who seem to others the most glamorous couple ever, 'as fine-looking a couple as could be found in Paris', but are finding their private lives increasingly less glamorous.
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Mar 7, 2008 · Tender is the Night, the book that caused F Scott Fitzgerald the most artistic heartache, was neither a critical nor a commercial success when it was first published in 1934.
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Jun 28, 2016 · For any true fan of Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night is a must, or anyone wanting to learn about the art of descriptive storytelling. If you didn’t like The Great Gatsby , I wouldn’t necessarily recommend it (though, in my opinion, it’s the second greatest book by the greatest writer of all time, so in reality I would recommend it to ...
Tender is the Night and The Great Gatsby are complex romance stories that reveal the illusionary nature of the Jazz Age—an era that promised magnificent opportunities, but ultimately led to the destruction of downfall of many American men.
