The Crack-Up
The Crack-Up is a collection of three essays by the author F. Scott Fitzgerald. These essays were originally written for the Esquire magazine during 1936. Fearing that he would never again be able to write, his collapse of identity was complete. It was at this point that Scott withdrew to a cheap hotel in Hendersonville, North Carolina, and, while living off apples and tin cans of meat, wrote the three essays that make-up "The Crack-up" sequence: "The Crack-up," "Pasting It Together," and "Handle with Care," published in the February, March, and April issues of Esquire in 1936. In the first essay, Scott wrote that his “nervous reflexes” had been broken by “too much anger and too many tears,” that he “was always saving or being saved,” an understandable situation perpetuated by the continued crisis brought about by Zelda’s illness and his own drinking. “I began to realize,” he went on in "The Crack-up," that “my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt”.
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The Crack-Up
The Crack-Up is a collection of three essays by the author F. Scott Fitzgerald. These essays were originally written for the Esquire magazine during 1936. Fearing that he would never again be able to write, his collapse of identity was complete. It was at this point that Scott withdrew to a cheap hotel in Hendersonville, North Carolina, and, while living off apples and tin cans of meat, wrote the three essays that make-up "The Crack-up" sequence: "The Crack-up," "Pasting It Together," and "Handle with Care," published in the February, March, and April issues of Esquire in 1936. In the first essay, Scott wrote that his “nervous reflexes” had been broken by “too much anger and too many tears,” that he “was always saving or being saved,” an understandable situation perpetuated by the continued crisis brought about by Zelda’s illness and his own drinking. “I began to realize,” he went on in "The Crack-up," that “my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt”.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9786050310306 |
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| Publisher: | F. Scott Fitgerald |
| Publication date: | 06/28/2014 |
| Sold by: | StreetLib SRL |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 401 KB |
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