The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald | Recreating the Past in a Valley of Ashes

Carl Korsnes and Jan-Ove Tuv sit down to talk about Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel "The Great Gatsby".

Topics discussed in this episode:
• Making the present eternal
• Condensed storytelling and sensory descriptions
• The rich descriptions of Dickens and Fitzgerald
• Gatsby was a boy who never grew up
• Valley of ashes, broad hips and timelessness
• Killing Myrtle and Daisy’s relationship to Gatsby
• Gatsby's obsession with recreating the past
• What is important in a story
• Gatsby or the modern Sisyphus

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The conversation was filmed and edited by Bork S. Nerdrum.
The centerpiece was a 19th century reproduction of G. F. Watts' Hope.

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