The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Tales of the Jazz Age by F Scott Fitzgerald
I saw “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” recently. The film, starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett is almost three hours long. It’s an astonishing film that explores themes of life, death and love in the context of a man who ages backwards. It’s unique and thought provoking, diverting and depressing. I knew it was adapted from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book, I decided it was high time I read it. The book turned out to be a short story first published in Colliers Magazine in 1921. In an introduction to his story, Fitzgerald reflected that a quote by Mark Twain gave him the idea. This quote could be the one that inspired him, it certainly fits the premise.
“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.” –Mark Twain
The movie differs from Fitzgerald’s story. The title is the same, as…