The Paradigm of Paris as a Modernist City in the Prose of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Abstract

Urban models, which are one of the most interesting concepts of modernism, are actively studied in foreign literature.

Paris occupies a special place in such models. It is sometimes compared to an “indissoluble celebration”, sometimes referred to as the “Babylon of the Jazz Age” by various authors.

The concept of the modernist city is particularly prominent in the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Paris, presented as a city of bohemia, is portrayed through the character’s perception in these completely incomparable works of literature.