最近在跟一个美国老师的精读课,the Great Gatsby,重温一下close reading,symbolism,the roaring 20S。想想寒假怎么折腾那两。当然不是读这本书。
大学读过这小说,还写过报告,不过那时没看出这是the Greatest American Novel.那时喜欢海明威的小说。现在突然发现The Great Gatsby挺好看的, extraordinary rendering of the American vernacular and successfully capturing the aspirational nature of the American psyche.
又下了本Tender is the night