Tender Is the Night
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Tender Is the Night
Narrated by:
Trevor White
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About this listen
It is 1925, and Richard Diver is the high priest of the good life on the white sands of the French Riviera. The Beautiful People - film stars, socialites, aristocrats - gather eagerly and bitchily around him and his wife Nicole. Beneath the breathtaking glamour, however, is a world of pain, and there is at the core of their lives a brittle hollowness. Beautiful, powerful, and tragic, Tender is the Night is one of the great works of American fiction.
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In the story its self, I see a beautiful crafted decent into depression and drink. The reflection of art imitating life, only held back by his unwillingness to stick the landing on two characters who most likely, just felt too similar to himself and his wife. My feeling is that this should have ended more tragically. But I understand how utterly terrifying that might have been for him to do.
One of the weaknesses of the story in many ways, is how closely it can be linked to life, and in life, often we find our story’s have little if no central thrust. This is the predominant issue for me with the novel. It follows a series of events that chart the rise and fall of a relationship, and that relationship is the centre of all, but if there is a thematic message, or core to the story, it seems to be that of fear over lost time, that of sacrifice to another, and that of loosing one’s self to someone else. Nicole looses herself to her father, Dick looses himself to Nicole, and at the start of the novel, Rosemary looses herself to Dick as well. Each person takes from the other. They take their youth, their passion, their energy, almost draining them somehow, and in the end it is Dick who has lost. As he was warned, his wife was his ever patient, it drained him, his will to practice, his energy to write and his love for her, until all he had left was drinking, curing her, and resenting her at once for lost time. In that bitterness fester, Nicole becoming an object of blame for Dicks failings, and Dick a representation of Nicole’s faded illness.
It is interesting how often Fitzgerald places himself/Dick in the distinctly ‘feminine’ position through out the novel, with an entire passage that had thus been a physical copy, I would have highlighted, just outlining the loss of hisself and his freedoms to his partner, something that in reality, would be much more appropriately ascribed to a wife in the 1930s rather than a husband. In that way the novel could almost be seen as feminist for the time, allowing men a perspective they would not usually get, on how it might be to be a women then.
There is much more I need to reflect on about this book. I have just now finished it, and will continue to reflect upon it over time, but I wanted to get down my initial thought before they disappeared, and will likely come back to this review and edit it again.
What I would say though, for this one, is that while I thoroughly enjoyed the performance, I think this would have been much better to read than to listen to. There and themes and ideas in this, that I would want to drill down in, and seeing the words on the page, underlining, taking note, I feel would have been very rewarding. Will be reading again.
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