The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Nessuna copertina — F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (EBook, 2009, The Floating Press)

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Pubblicato il 2009 da The Floating Press.

ISBN:: 978-1-877527-00-5

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"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a 1922 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story begins in 1860, just before the beginning of the American Civil War, with the birth of the central character, Benjamin Button. Benjamin is born with the body and demeanor of a very old man and within a few hours is already able to talk. To dodge humiliation, Benjamin's father makes him to shave and dye his hair to make him look more like the child he is supposed to be. As the tale evolves it becomes obvious that Benjamin is aging in reverse."The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" has been adapted into a blockbuster movie starring Cate Blanchette and Brad Pitt in what's been deemed "the finest performance of his career".

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Graham Downs ha recensito The Curious Case of Benjamin Button di F. Scott Fitzgerald

I was expecting better....

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This is another one of those stories I've had on my TBR list for a long time. Since the movie came out, actually -- although I've not seen the movie.

It was okay. A good story, and pretty absurd (which was the point), but I feel like it could've been better. Maybe if we'd heard a bit more about Benjamin's mom, for example... Although maybe she died in childbirth; we're not told. For that matter, what must it have been like to give birth to a fully grown man?

Sure, in the time in which this story was set, we don't really worry too much about what women think, and we certainly don't talk about things like childbirth in great detail, but still. There are other women in this story who got quite important roles. Why not Benjamin's mother?

This story raises more questions than it answers... but again, that's …

This is another one of those stories I've had on my TBR list for a long time. Since the movie came out, actually -- although I've not seen the movie.

It was okay. A good story, and pretty absurd (which was the point), but I feel like it could've been better. Maybe if we'd heard a bit more about Benjamin's mom, for example... Although maybe she died in childbirth; we're not told. For that matter, what must it have been like to give birth to a fully grown man?

Sure, in the time in which this story was set, we don't really worry too much about what women think, and we certainly don't talk about things like childbirth in great detail, but still. There are other women in this story who got quite important roles. Why not Benjamin's mother?

This story raises more questions than it answers... but again, that's probably the point.

Also the ebook I read wasn't very well edited. I kept seeing line breaks in the middle of sentences, and weird punctuation. Maybe it was OCRed from the print version, and that's why.

I should point out, however, that this is the very first work I've ever read by this author. I've never read The Great Gatsby either.