First off, let me say that The Great Gatsby is one of my favorite books. Maybe it's the fact that it's a literary treasure, or maybe it's that I read it four times within the span of three weeks last year while writing my final essay for high school and developed the book version of Stockholm syndrome for it. Who knows. Anyways, it took about 5 minutes after finding out that this book existed for me to order it on Amazon.

It was very fun and exciting to be able to re-read Gatsby but also have it ever so slightly different. It felt almost like a game, trying to pick up on little things that had changed and making new discoveries about the characters and the themes. This book felt a bit more raw than the final Gatsby. It seemed like the themes and symbolism were more obvious and some bits felt unpolished. Still, it was beautiful and amazing and made my little heart pitter patter.

I loved the experience of reading this and I'd recommend it to anyone who enjoyed reading Gatsby.

Lettura contemporanea a quella de Il Grande Gatsby (terza o quarta rilettura, ormai, chi può dirlo?), questa volta nella traduzione di Nicola Manuppelli.

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¿Cómo empezar?. Cierto, ni este libro ni el Gran Gatsby son mi tipo de obra. En este se incluye quizá 1 o 2 capítulos que te narran el pasado de Gatsby encajando un poco más las cosas pero la misma conclusión. Quizá si te gustó el Gran Gatsby o su adaptación al cine y quieres más, este libro podría ser de tu agrado.

This is a great book my second read was even better than the first time I read it.

If you've only read The Great Gatsby once or twice, or haven't read it in several years, Trimalchio doesn't have much to offer you. However, if you really know the ins and outs of The Great Gatsby, this book will be entertaining to you. Most of the edits that resulted in the final publication make sense, and it's fun to see how little revisions like when Gatsby decides to reveal that he didn't graduate from Oxford, and to whom he reveals this actually alter the readers' perception of the character. A few other similar edits show up as well, which I don't really need to go into. There are a lot fewer "old sport"s in this book as well, something I wish Fitzgerald had carried into The Great Gatsby.

This is a very interesting book. If you are a fan of the Great Gatsby you will likely enjoy this book. It is mostly the same story as the traditional version of Gatsby but has elements that makes it feel like a different story. The 2013 film starring DiCaprio uses details from the great Gatsby and Trimalchio.

Obra imperdible para cualquier lector de Fitzgerald

An interesting insight into the creative process of Fitzgerald. There's not much that's different from the final text, but the little edits mean a lot when examined on a microscopic level. They're not groundbreaking, but they do help us understand Fitzgerald's sense of prose, and the inherent poetry that lies beneath.

It was interesting to read this and then read his editor's comments. Now I have to read the published version again, which I've already read a few times through the years, to see how it compares to this. I understand that Baz Luhrmann was inspired by this original version for his cinematic interpretation of The Great Gatsby.

I'm not going to lie that it took me a little bit to get through this, but once I hit Chapter 3 (A.K.A. the first Gatsby party), it flew. To be honest, Gastby is a 4 star, top novel for me, but I actually loved this more. I have more insight on Nick, Jordan, and Daisy. I hate them more, and I love them more.

Chapter 7 is a freaking game-changer on the plot.

Honestly, I think I'd prefer to teach "Trimalchio" over Gatsby.

Worth the price admission for chapters VI and VII alone. Nick is less likable in Trimalchio, and his affair with Jordan is drawn out a bit more fully (not that I really cared). Nick and Jordan, to quote the introduction "are more clearly complicit in Daisy's affair with Gatsby, and in the wreckage that follows."

Gatsby's admissions to Nick in Chapter VIII were waaaaay to explicit for my liking; Fitzgerald wisely chose which criticisms of his editor to follow and which to ignore.

All in all, a worthwhile read for any Gatsby fan, and, more broadly, to those interested in the creative/publishing process.

This early version of The Great Gatsby provides an enlightening window onto FSF's practice of writing. While it is essentially the same book as Gatsby (the characters are drawn a little differently and the enfolding of the crisis scene between Gatsby and Tom et al in chapters six and seven occurs differently) the most remarkable feature of Trimalchio is the impression one gets that FSF wrote one of the most beautiful, truthful and sad books ever written in any language essentially in a single draft. As Keats' mss do for him, this text conveys the astonishing artistic genius of a man who wrote one of the few true masterpieces of our national literature. He far surpasses Petronius and one can only hope that in the ruins of our civilization enough copies of this book, in either form, remain for future scholars to use, as we use the Satyricon, in their understanding of our morals, our habits, our ethos and our vernacular. The only drawback is that, as of yet, Trimalchio is only available in a rare, and expensive, scholarly edition. I was forced to use interlibrary loan to obtain a copy. It retails for somewhere near 60 dollars. Dover, it is high time for a paperback...