Alabama Song
Alabama Song is a Romance of Gilles Leroy published in 2007 with the editions of the Mercure de France (subsidiary of the publisher Gallimard). The November 5th, 2007, the book obtains the Prix Goncourt with the fourteenth tower of poll.
History
It is about a fictitious autobiography of Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Although Gilles Leroy, his author, always insisted on the fact that this work was not a Autobiographie but a Romance , it was based on an impressive research task, leading it on the traces of Zelda, in the name of which it is expressed, using the personal pronoun I . It will go thus until in Alabama, to see the tables painted by its heroin.
Of their meeting in 1918, with the fine tragedy of its life, the Zelda-Scottie couple is analyzed, with a vision somewhat damaging the image of the man who was F. Scott Fitzgerald. An association rather than a passion, such is the vision of this duet, which plunges together size to the decline.
The author tells how this heiress of the high “aristocracy” (girl of an influential judge) Sudiste agrees to follow the author of “the back of the paradise” in order to escape from a medium of which it feels captive. Zelda will become a MUSE for her husband, who will make use of it for each one of his works. Gilles Leroy tells how it feels vampirized by this irrefutable fact.
In this novel voluntarily empathic, one can to feel suffering of this woman, constraint to refuse engagements as dancer because her husband does not like the Italy, which falls in love with a French pilot, Edouard Jozan and which her husband makes lock up because it disturbs it in her work.
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