{"product_id":"o-curioso-caso-de-benjamin-button-e-outras-historias-da-era-do-jazz","title":"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories from the Jazz Age","description":"\"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,\" the famous short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), which inspired the film of the same name directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett—and which won three Oscars in 2009—is one of the captivating narratives in this book, now available in bookstores in a new edition. It's the fantastic story of a man who is born old and grows younger throughout his life. His development occurs in a manner contrary to normal: born looking like a septuagenarian, \"by the time he turned eighteen, Benjamin was as erect as a man of fifty; he had more hair (...), his step was firm, and his voice had lost its tremulous, cracked tone (...).\" As he tries to adapt to clothes and toys, at school and university, and in his love for the beautiful girl who sees in him a mature man, their ages gradually approaching until they are reversed, we follow the strange life of this special man, a character masterfully created by Fitzgerald and now becoming even better known to the general public through the cinema. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories from the Jazz Age, written in 1922 and published as Six Stories from the Jazz Age and Other Stories, brings together the most emblematic short stories by the renowned American writer, translated by Brenno Silveira, who also wrote the introductory study. \"Jazz Age,\" the name given by F. Scott Fitzgerald to the frenetic period experienced primarily in the United States, and also in post-World War I Europe, meant much more than music. An entire generation, stunned by the memories and hardships of previous years, seemed to want to seize every moment as if it were their last—and little did they know that all the euphoria of the decade would end with the 1929 crisis. In the 1920s, rigid customs were loosening, women were entering the workforce and becoming more independent, an era of modernity and speed, with their automobiles, was ushered in, and, to the sound of jazz, intellectuals produced amidst endless parties, with a creativity that would transform the global art scene. Whether in the fanciful story of Benjamin Button or in other believable short stories, the author not only exposes this intensity that marked his time, his life, and his literature: he narrates the lives of his characters—successful men, well-off people, dissatisfied husbands and wives, the then-recent studies of psychoanalysis—with a historian's care and a fiction writer's talent, consecrated by his novels *The Great Gatsby* and *Tender Is the Night*. The author's life and work intertwine; we often find traces of Fitzgerald himself, his wife Zelda, and his friends in the stories. As he himself said, \"All my characters are Scott Fitzgerald, even the women are Scott Fitzgerald.\" In addition to \"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,\" the book includes \"The Good Life,\" \"The Camel's Back,\" \"Tarquinius of Cheapside,\" \"O Red-Haired Witch!\", \"The Residue of Happiness,\" \"The Conciliator,\" \"Hot Blood, Cold Blood,\" and \"Gretchen's Nap.\"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176263041276,"sku":"9788503009188","price":64.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/608533df1194ef46448e32b5ddcc326e_9b3855bf-5361-4ea2-b813-2f07ab543073.jpg?v=1778310532","url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/products\/o-curioso-caso-de-benjamin-button-e-outras-historias-da-era-do-jazz","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}