An incorruptible dream

‘I think my novel is about the best American novel ever written.’

Crossing the Culture Rachel Helen Smith

So F. Scott Fitzgerald declared to editor Maxwell Perkins on finishing the manuscript of his partly-autobiographical novel, The Great Gatsby (1925). The new film adaptation by Baz Luhrmann reminds us of the brilliance of a writer who became infatuated with the soulless glamour of the Jazz Age and simultaneously sought to critique it.