On this side of Paradise. Fitzgerald F.

The first, wearing autobiographical features of the novel of the great Fitz-Jrald. The book, which has become a manifesto for American youth "Jazz Era." These boys and girls have no ideals left, they trust only themselves. They eagerly want to have fun, enjoy life, the fragile-capacity of which has already managed to realize. At first glance, Fitzgerald's heroes can be considered empty and frivolous. But in essence, the fate of these “rebels for no reason”, seeking new ideas about friendship and rejecting the philistinism and the hypocrisy of the “fathers”, is deeply tragic. Their riot is doomed - and only they themselves are not yet guessed about this...