Fitzgerald Studies In The 1970s Summary

The author of the article “Fitzgerald Studies in the 1970s” is Sergio Perosa. Perosa was born in 1889 in Latin America. He has written several books, articles, and journals in Spanish as well as in English. His work includes “The art of F. Scott Fitzgerald” and “American theories of the novel”. In this article, Perosa emphasizes on how in the early 1970’s, numerous authors commenced evaluating Fitzgerald’s methodology of writing. In this article, Perosa examines how different writers critiqued and described Fitzgerald’s style and craft of writing. Perosa evaluates Milton R. Stern’s novel, “The Golden Moment” and delineates Stern’s purpose of writing the novel was to “illustrate the national rather than the literary development of Fitzgerald’s talent” (Perosa, 1980). Perosa exhibits that in Stern’s novel, “Fitzgerald sought to depict a social character: made up of innocent romantics, golden …show more content…
In his novel, Stern described Fitzgerald’s style and craft of writing as “the combination of which defined and effected the destiny of America” (Perosa, 1980). In addition, Perosa also evaluates Aaron Latham’s book “Crazy Sundays”, in which Latham depicts the “biographical image” of Fitzgerald by “analyzing last years of his life and his intense work in Hollywood” (Perosa, 1980). Furthermore, Perosa evaluates John A Higgins’s novel “F. Scott Fitzgerald”. In his novel, Higgins “explores the nature and artistic achievement” of Fitzgerald’s short stories. Perosa evaluates the findings and analysis of each author towards Fitzgerald, in order to vindicate the narrative qualities of Fitzgerald’s work. The main theme of the article was to examine Fitzgerald’s literary achievement and to safeguard his well-defined identity among other twentieth century