The Great Gatsby is widely regarded as one of the masterpieces of American fiction.
“了不起的盖茨比”被广泛认为是美国小说的代表作之一。
It tells of the mysterious Jay Gatsby’s grand effort to win the love of Daisy Buchanan, the rich girl who embodies for him the promise of the American dream.
它讲述了神秘的杰伊·盖茨比(Jay Gatsby)为赢得黛西·布坎南(Daise Buchanan)的爱而付出的巨大努力,黛西·布坎南是一个富有的女孩,为他体现了美国梦的希望。
Deeply romantic in its concern with self-making, ideal love, and the power of illusion, it draws on modernist techniques to capture the spirit of the materialistic, morally adrift, post-war era Fitzgerald dubbed “the jazz age.”
它对自制、理想的爱情和幻觉的力量的关注非常浪漫,它利用现代主义的技巧来捕捉物质主义的、道德上漂泊的、战后时代的精神,菲茨杰拉德被称为“爵士乐时代”。
Gatsby’s aspirations remain inseparable from the rhythms and possibilities suggested by modern consumer culture, popular song, the movies; his obstacles inseparable from contemporary American anxieties about social mobility, racial mongrelization, and the fate of Western civilization.
盖茨比的抱负仍然离不开现代消费文化、流行歌曲和电影所暗示的节奏和可能性;他的障碍也离不开当代美国人对社会流动性、种族混血化和西方文明命运的焦虑。
This Broadview edition sets the novel in context by providing readers with a critical introduction and crucial background material about the consumer culture in which Fitzgerald was immersed; about the spirit of the jazz age; and about racial discourse in the 1920s.
这一Broadview版本为读者提供了关于菲茨杰拉德沉浸在其中的消费文化、爵士乐时代的精神和20世纪20年代的种族话语的批判性介绍和关键背景材料,从而将小说置于上下文中。