In an undated letter, Francis Scott Fitzgerald he advises his daughter, Scottie, when she was feeling the way of letters: To write well is in all cases to swim underwater and hold your breath. In other words, to submerge, to disappear in the liquid, to let oneself be carried away by the current, waiting for a revelation, until the moment arrives to raise one’s head to the surface. The author of The Great Gatsby’, a beautiful book about the hoax of the American dream, avoids, however, the fact that sometimes he dived into his wife’s private diary to take under the arm some fragment. The title of Suave es la noche’ (Tender is the night’) comes from one of the letters of zelda fitzgeraldalthough she didn’t seem to care (Zelda is herself an irresolvable contradiction).
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