The Last Tycoon

Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Last Tycoon” (published in 1941), left unfinished due to the writer’s early death, occupies a key place in his legacy. A story about the life of a well-known film studio executive serves as a kind of summary of Fitzgerald’s central theme—the collapse of the “American Dream.” Behind external successes lies boundless fatigue, indifference, inability to live deeply and enjoy life. That is why the hero’s physical death does not seem premature or accidental.