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F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Short Stories
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Short StoriesFitzgerald wrote a total of 160 short stories in his life, not necessarily because they were his favorite literary form, but partially because they were his major source of income during the 1920s. The fact that there were monetary motives involved led contemporary critics to question Fitzgerald's seriousness as a writer. However, Fitzgerald never produced any hack work. Even his final endeavors in the genre - the Pat Hobby stories - are testament to his work ethic as well as his unique gifts as a writer.
'The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald', edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli
The definite collection of Fitzgerald's short stories; edited and with a preface by the foremost Fitzgerald scholar Matthew J. Bruccoli. The anthology contains all of Fitzgerald's most important short stories: "The Ice Palace", "May Day", "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz", "Babylon Revisited" and "Crazy Sunday".
1920: 'Flappers and Philosophers'
Fitzgerald published his first collection of short stories shortly after the instant success of his first novel This Side of Paradise. It contains the following stories: "The Off-Shore Pirate", "The Ice Palace", "Head and Shoulders", "The Cut-Glass Bowl", "Bernice Bobs her Hair", "Benediction", "Dalyrimple Goes Wrong" and "The Four Fists".
1920: 'The Cruise of the Rolling Junk'
In the summer of 1920, three months after he got married, F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda embarked on a 1,200-mile trip from their home in Westport, Connecticut to Montgomery, Alabama to pay her parents a surprise visit. He later chronicled the eight-day journey in the travelogue 'The Cruise of the Rolling Junk'. Fitzgerald's writing conveys an acute sense of time and place and creates a lively impression of the adventure that traveling across the United States by car once was on the reader's mind. But even though the piece is set firmly it its era, it's remarkable how contemporary Fitzgerald's narrative feels.
Part of that is the endearingly self-deprecating manner with which he portrays himself and his wife: 'Zelda held Dr. Jones' Guide Book on her lap and gave me turning instructions as soon as - or almost immediately after - we reached each turning.' Certainly not one of Fitzgerald's greatest stories, but probably one of the funniest.
1922: 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'
The case of Benjamin Button is indeed curious: He gets born as an old man, very much to the chagrin of his father. He then gets younger and younger and finally dies as an infant. Fitzgerald's venture into the fantasy genre feels awkward, even though one of his core themes - romance betrayed by the passing of time - is at the heart of the story. The only reason this short story has been published as a stand-alone book is the movie adaptation by David Fincher, starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett.
1922: 'Tales of the Jazz Age'
During the 1920s short stories were Fitzgerald's main source of income, as he was able to sell them to magazines like the Saturday Evening Post for up to $4,000 - at a time when a schoolteacher's average annual salary was $1,299.
Therefore it only took him two years to accumulate the material for his second collection of short stories which included "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" as well as "The Jelly-Bean", "The Camel's Back" (which he allegedly wrote in just one day), "May Day", "Porcelain and Pink", "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz", "Tarquin of Cheapside", "O Russet Witch!", "The Lees of Happiness", "Mr. Icky" and "Jemina".
1928: 'The Basil and Josephine Stories'
While Fitzgerald was working on what was to become Tender is the Night, he started writing a series of short stories that dealt with Basil Duke Lee - a fictitious version of his younger self - and Josephine Perry - Basil's female counterpart. The edition at the link above contains all 14 of the Basil and Josephine stories.
1940: 'The Pat Hobby Stories'
When Fitzgerald's second career as a Hollywood script author started to collapse, he began to write the Pat Hobby stories for
Esquire magazine.
Their hero is Pat Hobby - a down-on-his-luck script writer himself who has barely kept his self-respect. Fitzgerald has endowed the stories with sharp self-irony and a hint of melancholy. The edition at the link above comprises all 17 Pat Hobby stories.
F. Scott Fitzgerald - An Annotated Bibliography
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Here’s a story about the letter F. To make uppercase F, you make a straight line down. On top you make a straight line across, and in the middle you make another straight line. To make lowercase f, you make a big curve on top and just a straight line down. In the middle, you make a line across. Some words that begin with F are . . . Frog. Flower. Fly. Okay, here’s our story. There’s a frog named Mr. Franklin, who had a fancy hat with a feather in it! He saw a fly and started chasing it. He found the fly in a forest. His name was Freddy. He said, “Oh, Mr. Franklin, I want to be your friend. I’m going to try to make you laugh!” And then he said, “Fly sky makes a fly.” Then he made a funny face. “Hmph. You’ll never make me laugh!” Then Freddy flipped over four times and pulled out a magic flower. He was going to use the magic flower to make Mr. Franklin laugh. He pushed a secret button in the flower, and instead of making Mr.
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The story of the mule of old Khabug | State Russian Drama Theatre. F. A. Iskander
14+
Abkhaz comedy
Author:
Fazil Iskander
Director Anton Kornilov 9000
Illarion Pasania
Small stage
1 hour 30 minutes (without intermission)
27 Jan 19:00, Friday
28 Jan 19:00, Saturday
23 Feb 19:00, Thursday
Actors and performers
Habug
Jambul Jordan
mul
Kirill Shishkin
stallion, Sandro
Osman Abukhba
Osol, Kolchesky, Ottrik with poles
000 000 , Big mustache, Chinese, Chinese king, Weeper, Chegemka, Cow
Amanda Kvaratskhelia
Horse, old woman, posters, Chegemka, cow
Marina Sichinava
Horse, old woman, posters, Chegemka, cow
Milan Lomii
Boy, pseudo -mate, poster, cow
Irina Delba
About the performance of the performance
Premiere: May 29, 2022
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In the comedy "The Tale of the Mule of Old Khabug" the audience will find a fascinating humorous journey through the history of Abkhazia of the 20th century, in which Stalin and Nicholas II, the Chinese tsar and the "Abkhazian Jew" Samuil, Sandro from Chegem and his old father Khabug, as well as a talking mule, donkey and other animals.
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Fazil Iskander considered it his literary task to "cheer up his despondent compatriots." Funny, witty, filled with unique Abkhaz humor, the play “The Story of the Mule of Old Khabug” will make the audience laugh, so that when they leave the theater, they better understand themselves.
This performance was born from a sketch of the director's laboratory "Sandro" in our theater in June 2021. The work of director Anton Kornilov was recognized by experts and the audience as the winner of the laboratory competition with a recommendation to the theater to release a full-fledged performance based on the sketch in 2022. It is important to note that the Sandro laboratory was held as part of the Fazil Iskander International Festival of Culture “Human Station”, and the work on “The Tale of the Mule of Old Khabug” was blessed by Shazina Agrba, who untimely passed away from us. This circumstance gives additional significance to our new work. nine0003
The genre of the performance is "Abkhaz comedy".
We somehow joked: there is an "American tragedy", so now let it be an "Abkhazian comedy". Here the word "comedy" is used in a broad sense to depict all aspects of life, where the main character is you and me, our society, our history, our vices and shortcomings, our insights and disappointments, mistakes and victories. Here is a comedy of characters, and a clash of the comic and the dramatic, when, against the background of outwardly tragic events, the comedy of situations, thoughts and actions of the characters is revealed. Yes, and Iskander's language itself is distinguished by paradoxical bitter irony, it is he who amuses, and not the situations in which the heroes find themselves. nine0003
Pyotr Vail and Alexander Genis drew attention to the fact that Iskander was able to write a new, real epic, but they were the first to start talking about the fact that "Sandro from Chegem" is a thing largely postmodernist, ironic over existing literary forms: "Epos is not could be neither cheerful nor sad - after all, he was the only truth, that is, what he is.
A picaresque novel could not be tragic - it was too cynical for that. Genre mishmash "Sandro from Chegem" - turns into a gloomy drama "The Cherry Orchard" (which is also called a comedy)". nine0003
"Genre mishmash" growing into a comedy - an accurate description of the relevance of the new performance. Eclecticism, cognitive dissonance, a combination of the incongruous in the minds and in real life, the attack of the archaic on culture - in other words, "the diagnosis of our time."
In 2013, the Russian PEN Center sent a letter to the Nobel Committee with a proposal to nominate Fazil Iskander for the Nobel Prize, moreover, for Sandro from Chegem, with a very characteristic wording: “Demonstrates the fullness of the multicultural life of the USSR and the inexhaustible sense of humor that gave opportunity for the nations and peoples of the country to survive in inhuman and hostile circumstances.” nine0003
Our new performance will serve this all-conquering, healing and life-affirming power of humor.
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Traditions of the Christmas story in the work of F. M. Dostoevsky "The Boy at Christ on the Tree"
A whole world of knowledge of good and evil is not worth “the tears of a child”, and “if our salvation depends only on a tortured child…”
F. Dostoevsky
Along with the baptism of Rus' and the adoption of the Christian faith, many new traditions and holidays came, one of which is the Nativity of Christ. Christmas is the birth of a man - God, who is sent to humanity to make life cleaner and more moral.
People's Rus' firmly connected in their minds Christmas time with Christmas. For many centuries, many customs have been associated with this holiday: helping the poor and infirm, exchanging gifts, caroling, etc.
During Christmas gatherings, children listened to instructive stories, or bylichki, which later formed the basis of a new genre - the genre of Christmas stories. nine0003
A Christmas or Christmas story is a literary genre that belongs to the category of calendar literature and is characterized by certain specifics in comparison with the traditional story genre. They got their name from the word "Christmas time", that is, the holy days from the Nativity of Christ to the Epiphany.
It seems important to us to focus on the terminological and content differences between the Christmas story as a genre of Western literature and the Yuletide story as a genre of Russian literature. nine0003
The tradition of the Christmas story has its origins in medieval mysteries. These were dramas on biblical themes. The founder of the genre is considered to be Charles Dickens, who set the main postulates of the "Christmas philosophy": the value of the human soul, the theme of memory, childhood, love for "a man in sin".
Throughout a large period of the twentieth century, the traditions of the Christian faith in general and Christmas stories in particular were undeservedly forgotten. At the same time, at the beginning of the 21st century, after a reassessment of moral values, society returned to the traditions of Christianity, as a result of which Christmas stories have become widespread in Russia in recent years. nine0003
The purpose of the Christmas story is to enhance the festive atmosphere in the homes of readers, tearing them away from everyday worries, at least on Christmas Day to remind them of all the "working and burdened", the need for mercy, love, care for their neighbors.
Features of the Christmas story:
- The action takes place on Christmas days;
- The presence of a narrator;
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- The plot develops from a hopeless situation to a happy ending;
Instructive character;
- Pronounced morality;
- A Christmas miracle.
The traditional Christmas story has a bright and joyful ending, in which good triumphs. The heroes of the works find themselves in a difficult material and spiritual situation, the resolution of which requires a miracle. Whether it is a clear intervention of higher powers or an allegedly accidental coincidence, all the troubles of the heroes must be resolved, and the reader will have a bright ending. nine0003
The tradition of Dickens in Russia was quickly accepted and partially rethought. If for an English writer the indispensable ending was the victory of light over darkness, good over evil, the moral rebirth of heroes, then tragic endings are not uncommon in Russian literature. Among the most significant works of Russian writers written in the genre of the Christmas story "The Boy at Christ on the Christmas Tree" by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky.
Shortly before the celebration of the new year 1876, the writer visited the Christmas tree with his daughter at the artists' club, and then visited the children's colony.
On the same days before the New Year, he met a beggar boy several times on the streets of St. Petersburg, begging for alms (“a boy with a pen)”. These impressions formed the basis of the Christmas story "The Boy at Christ on the Christmas Tree", published in the collection "A Writer's Diary". nine0003
Dostoevsky describes in his work the events that took place on Christmas Eve. The main character is a little boy: "Still very small, about six years old or even less, the boy woke up in the morning in a damp and cold basement." The boy is the personification of the baby Jesus, and the devastated den is the basement in which the hero lived.
In the big city the atmosphere of a holiday reigns. The boy becomes childishly delighted with what he sees: “Wow, what a big glass, and behind the glass there is a room, and in the room there is a tree up to the ceiling: this is a Christmas tree, and there are so many lights on the Christmas tree, how many golden papers and apples, and all around there are dolls, small horses; and children are running around the room, smart, clean, laughing and playing, and eating, and drinking something.
Just as Jesus came into a world full of human hatred and indifference, the hero of the story also faces the same thing. The little hero is lost in this atmosphere. The author makes it clear that the boy is not a participant in the holiday, he is on the other side of the glass and is only an outside observer. nine0003
Despite the fact that there are many people around him, he feels lonely and forgotten by everyone. The boy recalls his village: “Low wooden houses are locked with shutters; on the street, it’s a little dusk - nobody, everyone shuts up at home, and only whole packs of dogs howl, hundreds and thousands of them howl and bark all night. But it was so warm there and they gave him food…”
The time before Christmas has always been considered obligatory for doing good deeds. Throughout the story, the writer focuses the reader’s attention on the callousness and indifference of people: “The peace officer walked past and turned away so as not to notice the boy”, “One lady came up quickly and put a penny in his hand, and she opened the door to the street for him”, “ . ..behind him, someone grabbed him by the dressing gown: a big angry boy stood nearby and suddenly cracked him on the head, tore off his cap, and gave him a leg from below. nine0003
The hero, due to his young age, does not realize the soullessness of people in relation to him, and society does not notice the boy, thereby dooming him to death: he feels so good: his arms and legs suddenly stopped hurting, and it became so warm, as warm as on the stove; here he shuddered all over: oh, why, he was about to fall asleep. “And downstairs the next morning, the janitors found a small corpse of a boy who ran in and froze for firewood…”. Thus, we see that the society does not observe the Christian commandments. nine0003
The end of the work is not quite in the style of Christmas stories. In it, the writer deviates from tradition. His nameless hero does not receive a Christmas present from the surrounding people, he dies. For the little hero, death becomes the door to the land of his cherished desires, where he finds everything that was so lacking in reality: light, warmth, a Christmas tree, the loving look of his mother. "Mother! Mother! Oh, how good it is here, mother!” - the boy screams at her ... ".
Despite the tragic ending, the boy finds happiness and peace with Christ on the tree, that is, in the Kingdom of Heaven. nine0003
The question arises: why does F. M. Dostoevsky in this work deviate from the generally accepted canons of the Christmas story. It can only be answered if we take a broader look at the work of the author as a whole. All Dostoevsky's works are permeated with the theme of a humiliated and offended person. Among the humiliated and insulted heroes of Dostoevsky, children stand out especially, suffering without guilt, punished without crime.
The death of a child on Christmas night is a crime of humanity against children. Nevertheless, Dostoevsky could not complete the story in any other way. In draft versions, he himself explains the reason: “The next day, if this child recovered, what would he turn into? With a handle". The writer did not see the future of his hero in bright colors, he foresaw the boy's hard life, full of all the same humiliations and insults.
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Being a deeply religious person, Dostoevsky wanted every person to awaken a conscience, to awaken responsibility for what is happening, so that people would not be indifferent. It was important for Dostoevsky: if a child suffers and cries, it means that something is wrong in this world, it means that our life is unfair, wrong!
But it is very important that every person remembers his childhood with love and joy. Then he himself will be more just, kinder and more merciful. So that people on their earthly Christmas trees can see and give place to destitute and suffering children. And then the miracle that did not happen on Christmas Eve in the story could become a reality in our lives. nine0003
The Christmas holidays should become "days of family gathering", days of reconciliation and universal love, a time in which all Christian values are embodied and brought to the fore in the human mind.
Literature:
- Kasatkina, T.
