Save Me the Waltz

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Save Me the Waltz is Zelda Fitzgerald’s semi-autobiographical novel that portrays a Southern woman’s tumultuous marriage and artistic ambitions in the Jazz Age.

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Save Me the Waltz canonical 4

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instanceOf novel
semi-autobiographical novel
author Zelda Fitzgerald
characterBasedOn Alabama Beggs Knight
David Knight
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Zelda Fitzgerald
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReception mixed
depicts Southern American culture
expatriate life in Europe
professional ballet career
firstEditionFormat print
genre Jazz Age fiction
Southern literature
autobiographical fiction
modernist literature
hasISBN 978-0-02-019985-4
hasSubject Southern women
artists
ballerinas
married couples
inspiredBy Zelda Fitzgerald's life
language English
literaryMovement Modernism
mainCharacter Alabama Beggs Knight
narrativePerspective third-person
notableFor being Zelda Fitzgerald's only completed novel
portrayal of a woman artist in the Jazz Age
protagonistGender female
publicationDate 1932
publisher Charles Scribner's Sons
relatedAuthor F. Scott Fitzgerald
relatedWork Tender Is the Night
settingPeriod 1920s
Roaring Twenties
surface form: Jazz Age
settingPlace Southern United States
surface form: American South

Europe
theme artistic ambition
class and society
fame
female identity
gender roles
jealousy
marital conflict
marriage
mental health
self-realization

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Zelda Fitzgerald notableWork Save Me the Waltz
Zelda notableWork Save Me the Waltz
subject surface form: Zelda Fitzgerald
Zelda Sayre notableWork Save Me the Waltz
Zelda Sayre wrote Save Me the Waltz