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发信人: vincent (GiGi), 信区: English
标 题: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
发信站: 大红花的国度 (Tue Jun 13 09:58:42 2000), 转信
发信人: tanso (哑哑·卖身求荣), 信区: EnglishWorld
标 题: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz:Introduction
发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Sat Jan 1 23:40:57 2000)
"The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" first appeared in The Smart Set (June 1922).
Originally titled "The Diamond in the Sky," this classic novelette was
rejected
by the Post and other mass-circulation magazines, even after Fitzgerald cut
it
from twenty thousand words to fifteen thousand. (The amputated words are
lost.) He further tightened the story by cutting another eight hundred words
when he polished it for his collection Tales of the Jazz Age. Editors found
it baffling, blasphemous,
or objectionably satiric about wealth. The Smart Set paid Fitzgerald only
$300 when his Post price was $1,500 for a long story. Fitzgerald was
discouraged by the editorial reaction to this story "into which I put three
weeks real entheusiasm. . . . But
by God + Lorimer, I'm going to make a fortune yet." When he collected it in
Tales of the Jazz Age Fitzgerald explained that "Diamond"
was designed utterly for my own amusement. I was in a mood characterized by a
perfect craving for luxury, and the story began as an attempt to feed that
craving on imaginary foods.
One well-known critic has been pleased to like this extravaganza better than
anything I have written. Personally I prefer "The Off-Shore Pirate."
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