The work of Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) constitutes one of the most striking pages of American literature of the 20th century, the time of its heyday. The writer had the opportunity to experience great success and meet great love, but also had to endure deep despair and literary oblivion. Passion and dull indifference, kindness and cruelty, hard work and idleness coexisted in him - and “both” Fitzgeralds are easily recognizable in the characters of his novels and stories. The author - translator, writer and critic Alexander Yakovlevich Livergant reflected in the book the inextricable connection of Fitzgerald's biography with his literary works works telling about the lost generation that entered life after the First World War. sign of information products 16+