Tender Is The Night - Fitzgerald

"Tender is the Night" is F. Scott Fitzgerald's fourth and final completed novel, narrating the tragic story of Dick Diver, a young and brilliant psychiatrist whose career is interrupted when he marries the wealthy Nicole Warren, one of his patients. In this work, Fitzgerald addresses themes such as alcoholism, human depravity, psychoanalysis, loneliness, adultery, among others. "Tender is the Night" is considered by Scott Fitzgerald as his best literary work, and in 1998, the Modern Library ranked it 28th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
     

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 (St. Paul, USA) and died on December 21, 1940 (Hollywood, USA). F. Scott Fitzgerald lived life at a fast pace, as if he already anticipated the brevity of his existence. The passion for writing shaped his personality from an early age, and his first stories were published in a school magazine. During World War I, he joined the Army but continued to write articles for magazines and lyrics for songs, also attempting, unsuccessfully, to publish his first novel, "The Romantic Egoist" (1917). After the war, Fitzgerald worked in advertising, an experience that sharpened the jaded and cynical vision he would convey in his novels.