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In Benjamin Button, Fitzgerald was inspired by Giulio Gianelli?

posted 10 years ago by marcoasteggiano
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Many believe that Francis Scott Fitzgerald, in writing the novel "Benjamin Button", was inspired by a story by Italian writer Giulio Gianelli: "Pippin was born old and dead child."

I want to report about the following video presentation of an essay by the writer Patrizia Deabate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXG4qnZNDYY

In Italian:

In molti ritengono che Francis Scott Fitzgerald, nello scrivere il romanzo "Benjamin Button", si sia ispirato ad un racconto dello scrittore italiano Giulio Gianelli: "Pipino nato vecchio e morto bambino".

Vorrei segnalare in merito il seguente video di presentazione di un saggio a cura della scrittrice Patrizia Deabate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXG4qnZNDYY

[–] horn-5 10 years ago

And there are many who believe Fitzgerald was inspired by a 1911 novel called "The Elixir of Hate", written by an American writer (born in Nebraska)named George Allan England (1877-1937). The novel was about a man growing younger and turning into a child.

Les

[–] marcoasteggiano 10 years ago

There are articles, essays, books, about the comparison between the story of England and that of Fitzgerald? I'm very interested in the subject.