Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) was an American novelist and short story writer, a central figure of the Jazz Age and author of The Great Gatsby.

Associated with the Lost Generation and the Jazz Age; recurring themes include disillusionment, decadence of the 1920s, and the transition from youth to adulthood.

The review treats This Side of Paradise as a manifesto of a disenchanted generation. It focuses on Amory Blaine's transformation from romantic dandy to a disillusioned adult. Major themes: collapse of Belle Époque, postwar materialism, loss of youth and social decline.

For:Readers of early 20th-century American fiction, students of the Lost Generation, and fans of Fitzgerald's novels and short stories.

 The manifesto of a generation lost in the disappointment of modernity, the diary of a former bohemian who found himself living with heartaches and the struggles of an era definitively sunsetted: This Side of Paradise, one of the main works in the novelistic canon of Fitzgerald, describes, though not too sharply separated, two worlds, two epochs, two regimes, two constellations of vices and virtues unable to live hand in hand or—at the very least—in the most peaceful and relaxed civil and social coexistence.

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