菲茨杰拉德最呕心沥血的自传体长篇小说

女电影演员露丝玛利在戛纳海滩上遇见了主人公狄克•戴弗，一位精神病医生。他妻子妮珂是他过去的病人，患有精神分裂症。他温文尔雅，待人彬彬有礼，露丝玛利很快就迷上了他。尽管她一再对他表明心迹，狄克却始终不为所动。回巴黎后，他对妻子妮珂的忠诚看似没有动摇，事实上却情不自禁地被露丝玛利吸引。为摆脱对露丝玛利的幻想，狄克开始撰写专著，对复发癔症、精神状态仍不稳定的妮珂尽可能温柔体贴。在阿尔卑斯山度假期间，他遇到昔日好友佛朗兹，并用妻子可观财产中的一部分与他合伙办了一家诊所。此时，妮珂收到一封指责狄克与病人通奸的信，病情加剧，在郊游中故意撞毁汽车。狄克沮丧万分，独自外出度假散心，途中与罗丝玛利偶遇，却只是意识到他们短暂的爱情已无可挽回。最终他借酒浇愁，妻子也离他而去。他曾是这个浪漫时代的缩影，最终却沦为一个顾影自怜的失败者。小说见证了菲茨杰拉德虚度了大半生的“爵士乐时代”的幻灭，在很大程度上实现了作者本人所谓的“对人生透彻、惨痛的了解”。

While holidaying at a villa on the French Riviera, Dick and Nicole Diver, a wealthy American couple, meet the young film star Rosemary Hoyt. Her arrival causes a stir in their social circle and exposes the cracks in their fragile marriage. As their relationship unravels, the glimpses of their troubled past emerge, and a series of disturbing events unfolds. Peopled by an unforgettable cast of aristocrats and high-fliers, Tender is the Night is at once a scathing critique of the materialism and hypocrisy of the Roaring Twenties and a poignant and sensitive account of personal tragedy and disillusionment.

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