Artificial and irresistible: a house for Gatsby

CENTER ISLAND.- Gatsby's mansion was not just a status symbol. It was an architectural love letter, a desperate attempt to materialize a dream. It had columns copied from a French Hôtel de Ville, an Olympic pool, and a British palatial garden. “Colosal”, Fitzgerald summarizes. But it was not based on a single royal house: it was a combination of several mansions in this area of the Costa Dorada of Long Island. The house had to be a social trampo…

He is already a hundred years old. A novel that all Americans have read so far. And, of course, millions of readers around the world. The Great Gatsby. A timeless masterpiece, as the book was described these days by the writer's granddaughter Eleanor Lanahan. Out of time because Francis Scott Fitzgerald, when he painted the America of the 1920s for us in it, was actually unwittingly describing the United States of our time. Trump's America today…