Dec 29, 2009

The Crack-Up | The Crack-Up

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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The Crack-Up | The Crack-Up

At a glance:

Form and Content

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