おはようございます。KANOです。今回はこちらの記事から。
The Great Gatsbyについて。
↓の映画がとても、昔のキラキラ感がきれいでいいですよ。アマプラにあるのでぜひ（Amazonはめんどいからリンクしないｗ）。
quite a bit
意味 (くだけた話) かなり; とても
It’s been nearly a century since F. Scott Fitzgerald sent his manuscript for The Great Gatsby to the printing press. During that time, opinion on what has inarguably become the author’s best-known work has shifted quite a bit. Many refer to it as “The Great American Novel.” Many others insist it is not a novel but a novella, and not a particularly great one at that.
https://bigthink.com/high-culture/great-gatsby-criticism/
polarization
意味 （グループなどの） 分裂, 分極化, 対立.
All this polarization raises many interesting questions. Why has the book proven so divisive? Do the critics make a valid point, or should we dismiss them the way that a jealous Virginia Woolf sought to dismiss James Joyce’s Ulysses? Did Fitzgerald’s short-term failure grant him immortality in the long run? And, finally, is The Great Gatsby really as great as our high school teachers told us it was?
https://bigthink.com/high-culture/great-gatsby-criticism/
hitherto
意味 (かたく) これまで, 今まで.
Although The Great Gatsby received largely negative reviews upon its release in 1925, it did have its fans. Lillian Ford from the Los Angeles Times wrote it was “a work of art,” while New York Times journalist Edwin Clark called the book, curious, mystical, and glamorous, writing that it “takes a deeper cut at life than hitherto has been enjoyed by Mr. Fitzgerald.”
https://bigthink.com/high-culture/great-gatsby-criticism/
発音は「 /hɪ̀ðərtúː」
この単語、スペルミスにしか見えなかったw
authoritative
意味 〈人· 情報などが〉権威のある, 信頼できる
Unfortunately for Fitzgerald, their mild praise was drowned out by the frustration of other more authoritative critics. “When This Side of Paradise was published,” Harvey Eagleton wrote in The Dallas Morning News, referring to another book from the author, “Mr. Fitzgerald was hailed as a young man of promise, which he certainly appeared to be. But the promise, like so many, seems likely to go unfulfilled.”
https://bigthink.com/high-culture/great-gatsby-criticism/
cradle
意味 [the ～]幼少時代; 初期
Even some of Fitzgerald’s friends were disappointed with the book. “To make Gatsby really Great,” Edith Wharton, a fellow author, wrote to him in April of 1925, “you ought to have given us his early career (not from the cradle—but from his visit to the yacht, if not before) instead of a short resume of it. That would have situated him & made his final tragedy a tragedy instead of a fait divers for the morning papers.”
https://bigthink.com/high-culture/great-gatsby-criticism/
ギャツビーって、過去が謎に包まれてて終始胡散臭いくせに恋心はピュアってのがいいのに。分かってないな！
mediocre
意味 (けなして) 平凡な, 二流の.
While The Great Gatsby is more beloved today than it was in Fitzgerald’s own time, occasional criticisms — presented as “hot takes” — continue to appear in magazines. When Baz Lurhmann’s mediocre film adaptation released in 2013, for example, Joshua Rothman from The New Yorker said it was “trashy, tasteless, seductive, sentimental, aloof, and artificial,” just like its source material.
https://bigthink.com/high-culture/great-gatsby-criticism/
stylized
意味 型通りの, 様式化された.
“It’s popular because we still live in that atmosphere today,” he explains. “Fitzgerald’s novel is cool, sexy, stylized, and abstract; there’s a dreamlike falseness, a hollowness, an unreality to it, and that apparent superficiality is part of what makes it fascinating. It’s modernist and European without being arty […] for all its strangeness, it also possesses a glamorous, crowd-pleasing commercialism.”
https://bigthink.com/high-culture/great-gatsby-criticism/
exaggerated
意味 [通例[名]の前で]誇張された; おおげさな
To us, the setting of The Great Gatsby comes across as an exaggerated fantasy. For Mencken and Paterson, it was a stylized but ultimately faithful depiction of a reality they knew all too well. As did Fitzgerald himself. Like Daisy and Tom Buchanan, he and his wife Zelda lived a life confined to fancy hotel rooms, invite-only parties, and the backseats of luxury cars going way over the speed limit.
https://bigthink.com/high-culture/great-gatsby-criticism/
