Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940) is one of the greatest American writers, a member of the Lost Generation of the 1920s.
“The Great Gatsby” (1925) is his most celebrated and exemplary novel of the “Jazz Age” , a term he coined himself.
The author, in an extraordinarily masterly manner, described the post-war generation’s psychological prostration under the guise of the carnival brilliance of life.
The novel is a fascinating, exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s in which the American Dream turned out to be a tragedy.
