Overview
The Crack-Up F. Scott Fitzgerald. Produced by Esquire. Album The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Volume 2. The Crack-Up Lyrics. Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that. 'The Crack-Up' was first published by New Directions in 1945 and is now being rediscovered by a new generation of readers. Compiled and edited by Edmund Wilson shortly after Fitzgerald's death, 'The Crack-Up' tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at age thirty-nine from a life of success and glamor to one of emptiness and despair, and his determined recovery. The Crack-Up, essay by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published serially in Esquire magazine in 1936 and posthumously, in book form, in The Crack-Up: With Other Uncollected Pieces, Note-Books, and Unpublished Letters (1945). This confessional essay documents Fitzgerald’s spiritual and physical deterioration in the mid-1930s.
A self-portrait of a great writer 's rise and fall, intensely personal and etched with Fitzgerald's signature blend of romance and realism.
The Crack-UpThe autobiographical, 'The Crack-up,' 30 taut pages, is the centerpiece of this edition. It is not fiction, but a brief and unflinching account of the author's breakdown amidst the general breakdown of his era. It was written in 1936, six years after the crack-up of 'The Roaring Twenties' (which Fitzgerald termed 'The Jazz Age'). Mar 07, 2017 Part I: The Crack-Up Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work—the big sudden blows that.
tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at the age of thirty-nine from glamorous success to empty despair, and his determined recovery. Compiled and edited by Edmund Wilson shortly after F. Scott Fitzgerald's death, this revealing collection of his essays—as well as letters to and from Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, T.S. Eliot, John Dos Passos—tells of a man with charm and talent to burn, whose gaiety and genius made him a living symbol of the Jazz Age, and whose recklessness brought him grief and loss. 'Fitzgerald's physical and spiritual exhaustion is described brilliantly,' noted The New York Review of Books