The New Yorkerさんのインスタグラム写真 - (The New YorkerInstagram)「Although “Tender Is the Night,” the novel F. Scott Fitzgerald liked best of the four he published during his lifetime, was generally considered a failure when it first appeared, it has quietly assumed something like the status of an American classic. If many critics still regard it as a failure, they now tend to see it as a noble failure, even if the disintegration of its protagonist, Dick Diver, is never satisfactorily resolved. The real trouble with the book, Calvin Tomkins writes, is that Fitzgerald started out by using his friend Gerald Murphy as the model for Dick Diver, and then allowed Diver to change, midway through the narrative, into F. Scott Fitzgerald. To a lesser degree, he did the same thing with his heroine, Nicole Diver, who has some of the physical characteristics and mannerisms of Sara Murphy, Gerald’s wife, but is in all other respects Zelda Fitzgerald. In 1961, Gerald and Sara reread “Tender Is the Night” for the first time since it was published, with varying reactions. “I didn’t like the book when I read it, and I liked it even less on rereading,” Sara said. Gerald, on the other hand, was fascinated to discover how Fitzgerald had used “everything he noted or was told about by me” during the years that the two couples spent together in Paris and on the Riviera, the years from 1924 to 1929. At the link in our bio, revisit Tomkins’s Profile of the couple who inspired “Tender is the Night.” Photograph from Granger.」8月6日 3時15分