F. Scott Fitzgerald, Trimalchio

Nicolas Tredell (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1920

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

Trimalchio: An Early Version of “The Great Gatsby” (2000) is the galley-proof version of Fitzgerald’s third and most famous novel. It provides a fascinating extension of his oeuvre and a rich source of enjoyment and illumination for readers and scholars. James L. W. West III, the editor of this and several others volumes of the Cambridge edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, has supplied the title, but it was one that Fitzgerald himself had sometimes wanted to use for the novel, although others felt it would be too obscure.

In the Satyricon, the Latin novel by Petronius Arbiter (active 1^st century AD) which survives in fragments, Trimalchio is a freed slave who holds lavish banquets. …

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Citation: Tredell, Nicolas. "Trimalchio". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 02 April 2008 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=13048, accessed 26 November 2024.]

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