6/30/2023 0 Comments Superzelda by Tiziana Lo PortoInstead of retreading familiar ground - quips and correspondence from the usual suspects seated around that Algonquin table, for example - the scholar pored over archives of daily newspapers to help reconstruct the cultural climate. And then you start to see these incredibly interesting stories that actually challenge some of the received wisdom both about Gatsby and about the Fitzgeralds in the era.” “We tend to think that’s the atmosphere of Gatsby, but of course he created that quotation, so what was it he was filtering and recreating? I can only create a collage and take on it, but going back to the original materials there was so much there, it was so rich with things forgotten and left out. “What if I take it not literally but put a little bit more pressure on it and think what was that atmosphere?” Churchwell recalled of the initial idea. “A phrase that I use in the book,” Churchwell said, “is ‘trying to find what was in the air.” It echoes the image Fitzgerald himself uses in his retrospective essay My Lost City, about flappers being passé in 1923 New York and sailing to Paris: “I would take the Long Island atmosphere that I had familiarly breathed and materialize it beneath unfamiliar skies.” This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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