![]() Scott and Zelda were prototypical beautiful people: they engineered environments and pleasure and exerted great power: they were daring and outré, but given current mores, that will not seem their novelty. It is also that, contrary to general impression, the relationship probably did not destroy Fitzgerald's work but make it - and make it because writing was part of the whole internal marital competition. What is remarkable is not simply that this was a marriage conducted in public - dramatised in the press as the fashionable Twenties manifestation, romanticised and then, increasingly analysed in Scott's own fiction, as for that matter in Zelda's - and therefore culturally powerful. If, as I think, Fitzgerald is one of the greatest modern writers, then the internal politics of that ménage had much to do with it. The marriage of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald was among the most remarkable of modern literary marriages. ![]()
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