See also: Tendre is the night

Tendre is the night (in English: Tender is the Night ) is the fourth novel of the American author Francis Scott Fitzgerald. He is not any success at the time of his publication to the editions Scribner' S , in 1934. With died of the writer, on December 21st, 1940, one does not find it even more in the bookstores.

Inspired of its years on Riviera Frenchwoman, and in particular of the Schizophrenia of Zelda, its wife, Tendre is the night mixes with genius foil with the close friend and is looked like the chief of work of Francis Scott Fitzgerald. The title of the novel is drawn from worms of Ode to has Nightingale , of John Keats, and referred to the will to escape transitory which obsesses its characters. Because, beyond constituting the chronicle of a generation of expatriates on the Old continent, Tendre is the Night reveals the evil of living of a whole generation and, better, the needs infinite for the human being in a world which any transcendence left.