Zelda Fitzgerald - Save Me the Waltz (ENGELSTALIG)
(Signet Books)
uitgave uit 1968
206 pp pocket
(pp iets verkleurd, verder goed!)
Staat van het boek: 7.5

Save Me the Waltz is a 1932 novel by American writer Zelda Fitzgerald. It is a semi-autobiographical account of her life in the Deep South during the Jim Crow era and her marriage to novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald.[1] She composed the work while a patient at Johns Hopkins Hospital's Phipps Clinic in Baltimore, Maryland.[2] As part of her recovery routine, she spent at least two hours a day writing a novel.[3] She sent the manuscript to her husband's editor, Maxwell Perkins. Although unimpressed by the manuscript,[4] Perkins published the work in order for Fitzgerald to repay his financial debt to his publisher Scribner's.[5]
Divided into four chapters, the novel is a chronological narrative of four periods in the lives of Alabama Beggs and her alcoholic husband David Knight, two Jazz Age hedonists who are thinly-disguised alter-egos of their real-life counterparts. As her marriage deteriorates, Alabama grows further apart from her husband and their daughter. Determined to be famous, an aging Alabama aspires to become a renowned prima ballerina and devotes herself relentlessly to this ambition. However, an infected blister from the glue in the box of her pointe shoe leads to blood poisoning, and Alabama can never dance again.
Upon its publication, the novel received overwhelmingly negative reviews.[6] The book sold approximately 1,300 copies for which Zelda earned a grand total of $120.73.[7] Its critical and commercial failure dispirited Zelda and led her to pursue her other interests as a playwright and a painter.[8] However, Broadway producers declined to produce her play,[9] and when her paintings were exhibited in 1934, the critical response was equally disappointing.[10]
Forty years after its publication, Zelda's biographer Nancy Milford speculated in 1970 that Zelda's husband Scott rewrote the novel prior to publication.[11] This supposition was echoed by later biographers.[12] However, scholarly examinations of Zelda's earlier drafts of Save Me the Waltz and the published version disproved this speculation.[13] Nearly every revision was by Zelda and, contrary to Milford, Scott did not rewrite the manuscript.[14]
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