Tender Is the Night

Tender Is the Night, the original English title Tender is the Night is a novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, was first published in 1934. The autobiographical novel criticizes the members of the American financial aristocracy living in Europe. The title is a quote from John Keats ' "Ode to a Nightingale " ( Ode to a Nightingale ), which is preceded by the novel as a motto.

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The American psychiatrist Richard Diver, in short, Dick, learns during a visit to a Swiss sanatorium Nicole Warren, the, know mentally ill daughter of a very wealthy industrialist and falls in love with her. Dick is an expert in his field and he is facing a promising career. He married Nicole, to cure them as her doctor and husband. They have two children and result in the following years by Nicole wealth a luxurious lifestyle on the Côte d' Azur.

The narrative perspective changes at this point and the events will be told from the perspective of 18 -year-old rising actress Rosemary, who visited the Riviera on a vacation trip and it gets to know the Divers. She learns the decadent world of the rich exile Americans and is much more interested by the loving and friendly couple, especially Dick, in which she is deeply in love. The Divers they take you on a trip to Paris and Dick also developed a strong love for her. Nicole suffers from the pain of her jealousy out a relapse into psychosis and Dick decides on leave with her and not to see Rosemary.

Something happened there in his life broken, half-hearted, even to Nicole's sake, he accepts the offer of his Swiss colleagues Gregovorius true to found a psychiatric hospital for the rich. There, the family spends the following years, Dick's mental balance, it gradually changes as a basis. When Nicole, in turn, out of jealousy, a car accident provokes Dick takes free to recover. He gets on the trip, the news of his father's death and travels to America to his funeral. He travels back through Rome to reunite with Rosemary because he hopes that the relationship could restore to her the lost meaning in his life. However, it is bitterly disappointed in this hope. After this time, he falls more and more to alcoholism. His partner Gregovorius convinced him to retire from the clinic project. Nicole, however, it is always better. The two return to the Riviera, where now the jet-set has unfolded in all its superficiality and degeneracy. Delivered deeply cynical and his drunkenness - - Dick realizes that his wife, now finally healed, fell in love with the mercenary Tommy Barban. You can divorce him and Dick returns to America, where loses him.

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  • Literary work
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Literature ( English )
  • Literature (United States)
  • Novel, epic
  • By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Autobiography Henry King (director)
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