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Título: El Gran Gatsby
Autor: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Narrador: Hernando Ivan Cano
Formato: Abridged
Duración: 2 hrs and 56 mins
Idioma: Español
Fecha de publicación: 03-14-06
Editor: Yoyo USA, Inc
Calificaciones: 5 de 5 de 3 votos
Categorías: Fiction, Literary
Resumen del editor:
The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers.
Opiniones de los miembros:
I will think about this one for years
In all these years, I'd never read this great classic. Now I have and am eager to see the movie.
There are four things I want from a novel and this has all of them:
- Richly developed characters, honestly portrayed with flaws, people we end up interested in, if not caring about. All the characters here are colorful, glamorous -- and shallow and flawed.
- Great writing that mostly is invisible, like background music, swelling occasionally to the point where it's noticed as a pleasant surprise. F. Scott is a master at this, with a constant bed of unusual, rich phrasing and images like no one else's.
- An engaging story.
- A theme -- a takeaway that triggers thought for a days and weeks afterward. I see myself in these broken characters -- how I have treated wealth and being accepted, the lengths we go to find love and when that's missing, to find a level of acceptance that suffices for love.
Overall, a must-read. (And it's not very long. Could read in a weekend.)
"A Consciously Artistic Achievement..."
Contemporarily, when one undertakes a classic literary paragon such as "Gatsby", it isn't usually just for the sheer pleasure of reading a "good book"...one typically reads it to feel the need to be connected to writing so sublime that one could almost draw spiritual innervations from it. Some, on the other hand, may feel the need to be grounded in literature so rich and provocative that upon returning to contemporary fiction, they then have a yardstick with which to compare. Others, still, may derive and extract lost emotions that only the classics can emote.
Whatever vehicle drives one back to consider "Gatsby", the outcome can only lead to some interesting and, perhaps, novel conclusions. This reader's motivation, for example, was a recent reading of Dan Okrent's marvelous account of the bootlegging `20's in "Last Call" a history of prohibition wherein Okrent describes disparate characters very much similar to Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby and the socio-culture of the "jazz-age" that is depicted so eloquently in "Gatsby". Whatever the engine, returning to this prodigious work by Fitzgerald, the reader is again struck by the grandiloquence of the wording, the grandeur of the scene setting, the power of the plot and the gut-wrenching and heartfelt sensibilities of the narrator as he and thus the reader are dragged along in a story so strong and powerful, we immediately recognize the brilliance of Fitzgerald as an archetype fiction writer and also, then, the work of "Gatsby" as his literary masterpiece.
True, there are criticisms that have abounded for decades...the character development especially for Daisy and Tom Buchanan are almost deplorably one dimensional. Some of the criticisms of Gatsby follow this same line...he appears to be horribly shallow and unfeeling; immature in an unsettling way as to drive the reader to wonder what Daisy (no mature stalwart herself by any standard) ever saw in him.
