The Crack-Up (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- First Published: 1945
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1931-1937
- Setting: The United States and Europe
- Principal Characters: F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, Edmund Wilson, Thomas Wolfe
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Memory, Manners or customs, Social life, 1920’s, Emotions, Mental illness, Novelists, Nostalgia
Form and Content
The heart of The Crack-Up is a series of three articles entitled “The Crack-Up,” “Handle with Care,” and “Pasting It Together.” These first appeared in the February, March, and April, 1936, issues of Esquire magazine. In these articles, F. Scott Fitzgerald recounts his physical, emotional, and spiritual breakdown at age thirty-nine and elaborates upon its consequences. Fitzgerald died in 1940, and two years later his old friend and fellow Princetonian Edmund Wilson put together a book composed of ten articles Fitzgerald had written...
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