Kevin's review
Babylon Revisited: And Other Stories
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Kevin's review
Babylon Revisited: And Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Kevin's review
rating:
I read a lot of Fitzgerald in my early 20s, so I thought I should go back and revisit him, particularly to get a handle on how he constructed his short stories. I found myself far less impressed than I had been in the past. Many of the stories felt quite dated, and their concerns seemed somewhat silly to me. However, even in these stories, many of which were obviously written in a hurry for the money, there are these flourishes of absolute beauty in the language. The stories I found to stand the test of time were "The Ice Palace"; "Winter Dreams"; and surprisingly "Absolution." It has an ending which I find to be very contemporary.
