Aunque F. Scott Fitzgerald era un autor popular cuando public El gran Gatsby, esta no se convirti en novela de culto hasta despus de su fallecimiento. Gatsby encarna el arquetipo del millonario cuyo xito radica en la juventud y la popularidad, y que al mismo tiempo oculta con celo sus miserias personales y el origen de su fortuna. Es, en resumen, la metfora perfecta de los Estados Unidos de los felices aos veinte y de la ley seca. Imitada hasta la extenuacin y siempre admirada, El gran Gatsby es, casi un siglo despus, la autntica Gran Novela Americana. Although F. Scott Fitzgerald was a popular author when he published The Great Gatsby, it did not become a cult novel until after his death. Gatsby embodies the archetype of the millionaire whose success lies in youth and popularity, and who at the same time jealously hides his personal miseries and the origin of his fortune. It is, in short, the perfect metaphor for the United States of the Roaring Twenties and Prohibition. Imitated to exhaustion and always admired, The Great Gatsby is, almost a century later, the authentic Great American Novel.
Aunque F. Scott Fitzgerald era un autor popular cuando public El gran Gatsby, esta no se convirti en novela de culto hasta despus de su fallecimiento. Gatsby encarna el arquetipo del millonario cuyo xito radica en la juventud y la popularidad, y que al mismo tiempo oculta con celo sus miserias personales y el origen de su fortuna. Es, en resumen, la metfora perfecta de los Estados Unidos de los felices aos veinte y de la ley seca. Imitada hasta la extenuacin y siempre admirada, El gran Gatsby es, casi un siglo despus, la autntica Gran Novela Americana. Although F. Scott Fitzgerald was a popular author when he published The Great Gatsby, it did not become a cult novel until after his death. Gatsby embodies the archetype of the millionaire whose success lies in youth and popularity, and who at the same time jealously hides his personal miseries and the origin of his fortune. It is, in short, the perfect metaphor for the United States of the Roaring Twenties and Prohibition. Imitated to exhaustion and always admired, The Great Gatsby is, almost a century later, the authentic Great American Novel.
