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...LETTERS OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD edited by Andrew Turnbull. 615 pages. Scribner...
...Scott Fitzgerald would today be forgotten as a Princetonian playboy who was a silly young man in a silly time-the '20s-were it not for the fact that he was a silly young man of genius. It was his genius to vibrate like a tuning fork to the music of his time. When the '20s died on Black Thursday of 1929 and the times went bad, Fitzgerald went sour with them. Although he wrote better, he was on the wrong note; having been monstrously overrewarded for his early tripe, he was cruelly undervalued when-after heroic effort...
...wonderfully open, eloquent and touching letters records his astonishment at learning that his old Princeton classmate, Edmund Wilson, a man whom he regarded as his literary conscience, was suddenly to be heard expounding Marxist sociology. "Up Mallarmé!" was Fitzgerald's reaction to the dawn of a decade that was to be hostile to his esthetic creed...
...further bad fortune to be a romantic and, what is more, a romantic who was foolish enough to marry the heroine of his own novels. Scott's Zelda was the love object a worse and more prudent man would have rejected when the tinsel tarnished. Fitzgerald stayed in love...
...letters inexorably trace him to a Hollywood hotel where he worried about his weekly rent and Scottie's account at "Peck & Peck & Peck & Peck & Peck." He wondered aloud in letters to his agent, Harold Ober (who coldly cut off his credit), why the price of a Scott Fitzgerald story had gone down from $3,500 to $250. "Are they not worth more?" he asked...