Zelda Fitzgerald

"Pure and lovely...to read Zelda's letters is to fall in love with her." --The Washington Post Edited by renowned Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Barks, with an introduction by Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan, this compilation of over three hundred letters tells the couple's epic love story in their own words.Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's devotion to each other endured for more than twenty-two years, through the highs and lows of his literary success and alcoholism, and her mental illness. In Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda, over 300 of their collected love letters show why theirs has long been heralded as one of the greatest love stories of the 20th century. Edited by renowned Fitzgerald scholars Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Barks, with an introduction by Scott and Zelda's granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan, this is a welcome addition to the Fitzgerald literary canon.

A unique anthology of short stories and poetry by feminist contemporaries of Virginia Woolf, who were writing about work, discrimination, war, relationships and love in the early part of the 20th Century. Includes works by English and American writers Zelda Fitzgerald, Charlotte Perkins Gillman, Radclyffe Hall, Katherine Mansfield, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Edith Wharton, and Virginia Woolf, alongside their recently rediscovered 'sisters' from around the world. This book offers a diverse and international array of over 20 literary gems from women writers living in Bulgaria, Chile, China, Egypt, France, Italy, Palestine, Romania, Russia, Spain and Ukraine.

NYÖVERSÄTTNINGAlabama Beggs växer upp i den amerikanska södern i skuggan av det första världskriget. Hon är yngst av tre döttrar och det enda hon vill i livet är att ha roligt. Vilket hon, till sin fars, den högburne domare Beggs stora förtret, också har. Alabama dansar och dricker, hon flirtar med så många soldater hon bara kan. I löjtnanten David Knight möter hon till slut kärleken och då berusar sig Alabama på den. Paret flyttar till New York och Paris. David gör sig ett namn som konstnär. De får en dotter. Hyr ett hus på den franska Rivieran och umgås med intressanta människor i societeten. Men i Alabama växer ett hål, något måste fyllas, men inte med män, barn och ytliga fester - annars förlorar hon förståndet. Zelda Fitzgerald (1900-1948) skrev Charleston, sin enda roman, på sex veckor som en del av sin terapi när hon var intagen på sinnessjukhus. Romanen anses idag vara en modern klassiker som tar sig an kvinnors ställning och erfarenheter under jazzåldern. I ny svensk översättning av Linda Skugge.

Zelda Fitzgerald's only novel, Save Me The Waltz (1932) was written in six weeks after her admission to a sanatorium, as part of her therapy. It covers the period of her life that her husband F Scott Fitzgerald had been using for years while writing his Tender is the Night (1934). Fitzgerald revised her novel under her husband's guidance until they were both happy with it, but it sold poorly on publication. She died in 1940, and Save Me The Waltz is now recognised as a classic novel of woman's experience and an authentic record of the Jazz Age. It begins during the First World War. Alabama Beggs is a Southern belle, the younger daughter of a judge with no interest in life except enjoyment. She debuts into adulthood with wild parties, dancing and drinking, and flirting with the young officers posted to her home town. Then Lieutenant David Knight appears on the scene, and Zelda marries him. Their life in New York, Paris and the South of France closely mirrors the Fitzgeralds' own life and their prominent socialising in the 1920s and 1930s as part of what was later called the Lost Generation. Like F Scott Fitzgerald, David Knight is also a novelist, and like Zelda, Alabama is an aspiring dancer. She is committed to her dance training, attending her ballet studio in Paris every day for repetition, but refuses to accept that she might not become the great dancer that she ardently longs to be, threatening her health and her marriage. Erin Templeton's introduction to Zelda Fitzgerald's finest literary work describes how her struggles to become a dancer were the result of her need to have a life of her own rather than living in her husband's shadow.

Zelda Fitzgerald muistetaan nykyään parhaiten F. Scott Fitzgeraldin vaimona, mutta hän oli myös kyvykäs kirjailija. Viimeinen valssi on Zelda Fitzgeraldin ainoa romaani. Teos kertoo nuoresta naisesta, joka menee naimisiin lahjakkaan taiteilijan kanssa ja joutuu luopumaan urastaan balettitanssijana. Kirjan hahmot ja tarina perustuvat suurelta osin Fitzgeraldien omaan avioliittoon.

This story is the confessional of a famous glamour girl of the affluent 1920s and an aspiring ballerina, which captures the spirit of an era. Written in six weeks while recovering from a period of schizophrenia, this tale parallels the narrative of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Tender is the Night".

Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald has long been perceived as the tragic "other half" of the Scott and Zelda legend. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, this southern belle turned flapper was talented in dance, painting, and writing but lived in the shadow of her husband's success. Her writing can be experienced on its own terms in Matthew Bruccoli's meticulously edited The Collected Writings of Zela Fitzgerald. The collection includes Zelda's only published novel, Save Me the Waltz, an autobiographical account of the Fitzgeralds' adventures in Paris and on the Riviera; her celebrated farce, Scandalabra; eleven short stories; twelve articles; and a selection of letters to her husband, written over the span of their marriage, that reveals the couple's loving and turbulent relationship. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald has long been an American cultural icon. The Collected Writings affirms her place as a writer and as a symbol not only of the Lost Generation but of all generations as she struggled to define herself through her art.