Wat we nu lezen…
Na de recente volgens velen moderne ´ Great American Novel´, Freedom van Jonathan Franzen koos een van onze leden wederom voor de Amerikaanse literatuur. Een bekende en verfilmde klassieker over de ´Roaring Twenties´, maar wie heeft het boek (ooit) gelezen?
A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author’s generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald’s – and his country’s – most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter – tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…. And one fine morning – ” Gatsby’s rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.
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