Kyra Stromberg Orden de los libros (cronológico)

Autorka na základě dobových materiálů popisuje příběh "vysněného páru jazzové éry", který chtěl uskutečnit americký sen o úspěchu a bohatství a svým způsobem života i literární tvorbou se stal idolem jedné generace. Konflikty v oblasti literatury, střet temperamentů i rozpor mezi přáními a možnostmi ukončil jejich společenský vzestup a skončil i osobními tragediemi.

Nel 1921, il giovane scrittore Scott Fitzgerald dichiarava in un'intervista: „in effetti, mi sono sposato con l'eroina dei miei romanzi“. Considerati la coppia da sogno della loro generazione, Scott e Zelda Fitzgerald conducono un'esistenza vertiginosa, piena di sofferenza e fortemente mediatizzata, sullo sfondo di un decennio segnato dall'irresistibile jazz.

Zelda & F. Scott Fitzgerald - Ein amerikanischer Traum - Aus der Paare - bk899; Rowohlt Verlag; Kyra Stromberg; pocket_book; 1998

German

Caustic, brilliant, uncompromising, accomplished, Lillian Hellman, one writer noted, can "take the tops off bottles with her teeth". Her career as a playwright began in 1938 with The Children's Hour, the first of seven plays that would bring her international attention and praise. Thirty years later, Hellman unleashed her peerless wit and candor on the subject she knew best: herself. An Unfinished Woman is a rich, surprising, emotionally charged portrait of a bygone world -- and of an independent-minded woman coming into her own. Wendy Wasserstein's introduction to this new edition provides a fascinating literary and historical context for reexamining Lillian Hellman's life and achievement.