![]() Fitzgerald’s desperately prolific output in the form means that there are a few hastily-composed pieces, some lightweight, whimsical fantasies, but all of the work is beautifully written and a joy to read. ![]() ![]() The fantasies (which include the now-famous “ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”) reveal quite a bit about Fitzgerald’s preoccupation with artifice. The most substantial of those early stories “ May Day,” almost a novella, opens in a post-World War One New York City described as a fairy kingdom in the throes of market-madness: He was a very well-read, if not particularly deep, thinker who approached literature through fairy tales-Orientalist fables, adventure stories, Edmund Spencer’s allegories-and his early stories mix a boyish imagination with the feigned worldliness of a Princeton undergraduate.
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