The rotten, the sick and the wellGenealogía conradiana de lo morboso en The Great Gatsby
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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ISSN: 0213-201X
Argitalpen urtea: 2018
Zenbakia: 34
Orrialdeak: 311-332
Mota: Artikulua
Beste argitalpen batzuk: Epos: Revista de filología
Laburpena
ABSTRACT This article examines an element that has rarely been tackled by critics when discussing the influence of Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) on Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925), to wit: the structure, development and ideological scope of the idea of the “morbid” as representation of dysfunctional communities that do not observe the principles of responsibility. The article posits a theoretical framework that develops the main features of Conrad’s idea of responsibility, which, in turn, resembles that of Friedrich Nietzsche and deviates notably from that of Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881). The said framework is then deployed in order to delve into the images of sickness and rottenness in Fitzgerald’s novel. As a conclusion, the article examines the difference between two sorts of responsibility: social and individual, for they are the main constituents of the ideological conflicts the novel features.