Tender Is the Night

“Tender Is the Night” is, in many ways, a novel close to Fitzgerald’s own life, which the author himself called his favorite work—while many critics rated it even higher than “The Great Gatsby.” This novel is the story of the complicated relationship between young American actress Rosemary, a young talented psychiatrist Dr. Dick Diver, and his wife Nicole, whose illness is the drama of Fitzgerald himself (his wife Zelda suffered from schizophrenia). This is a novel about love, passion, the desire to preserve a marriage, despair, and self-deception—where, behind the fates of individual characters, you can see the face of an entire era…