Mathieu Laine publishes “Infantilization. This State nanny who wants you well ”, Les Presses de la Cité, 224 p., € 18.
Will the coronavirus pandemic kill Gatsby a second time?
Emblem of a sacrificed generation, the famous
“lost generation”
stunned by the First World War, the hero of Francis Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, published almost a century ago, is reborn in the contemporary guise of a student confined, prostrate, recluse, anguished by the obscured outlets and won by depression.
With even sometimes, and more than in the past, the tragic desire to end it.
Read also:
Covid-19: the great depression of the students
Certainly, his daily life has nothing to do with that of his predecessor, a young 22-year-old millionaire with modest origins, magnetic charm and a troubled past (he made his fortune on the back of prohibition).
Gatsby throws lavish parties with the sole aim of winning back the heart of Daisy, which he had fallen in love with before going to war, in 1917. The narrative entanglement leads him
This article is for subscribers only.
You have 83% left to discover.
Subscribe: 1 € the first month
Can be canceled at any time
I ENJOY IT
Already subscribed?
Log in
