Sunday, May 24, 2015

Better late …

… F Scott Fitzgerald's 1936 piece finally appears in print | Books | The Guardian. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

"Thank You for the Light" suggests that Fitzgerald's faith – in life, in art, even in Catholicism – may have lapsed, but it never expired. A year or so later, he would begin work on his last, unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon. Mrs Hanson's lit cigarette is not a green light at the end of a dock, but it's an image of renewed faith, and signals the beginning of Fitzgerald's struggle to regain his capacity for hope – his greatest theme of all.
… Thank You for the Light.

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