F. Scott Fitzgerald Great Gatsby AND Zelda Fitzgerald Save Me The Waltz 1953
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This is a really interesting love story. Two books two people that devoted their lives to each other and Literature. It seems that Zelda whom all of the books F. Scott wrote were dedicated, tried her hand at writing in this one work Save Me the Waltz, somewhat autobiographical and somewhat a lame attempt to ride on the coat-tails of Fitzgerald's depth and breath of writing expertise. After arriving in Paris, they soon relocated to Antibes on the French Rivera. While Scott was absorbed in writing The Great Gatsby, Zelda became infatuated with a dashing young French pilot, Edouard Jozan. She spent afternoons swimming at the beach and evenings dancing at the casinos with Jozan. After six weeks, Zelda asked for a divorce. Scott at first demanded to confront Jozan, but instead dealt with Zelda's demand by locking her in their house, until she abandoned her request for divorce. Jozan did not know she'd asked for a divorce. He left the Riviera later that year, and the Fitzgeralds never saw him again. Later in life he told Zelda's biographer Milford that any infidelity was imaginary: "They both had a need of drama, they made it up and perhaps they were the victims of their own unsettled and a little unhealthy imagination." From Fitzgerald's: "A Life in Letters," Fitzgerald referred to the Jozan affair in his August letter to Ludlow Fowler,
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