Norman Mailer Livres
31 janvier 1923 – 10 novembre 2007
Norman Mailer était un romancier, journaliste et essayiste américain, reconnu comme un pionnier de la non-fiction créative et du mouvement du Nouveau Journalisme. Son écriture explorait souvent les réalités brutes de la vie américaine, abordant des thèmes de violence, de pouvoir et de la psyché masculine. Le style distinctif de Mailer se caractérise par son immédiateté viscérale, ses personnages captivants et un commentaire social et politique incisif. Il naviguait avec maestria les frontières entre fiction et faits, repoussant les conventions de l'expression littéraire.
Pieces and Pontifications
- 400pages
- 14 heures de lecture
Essays and Interviews with and by Norman Mailer covering the decade 1970-1980
Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead is not just a monumental war novel but also a devastating antiwar novel, exposing the primal nature of power through the interplay of a platoon of soldiers on an impossible and ultimately pointless mission on an obscure island in the Pacific during World War II. Written just after the war ended, in the early days of the emerging Cold War, the novel daringly engages with the authoritarian impulses in the American character
An essential guide to the life and work of one of America's most controversial writers, Advertisements for Myself is a comprehensive collection of the best of Norman Mailer's essays, stories, interviews and journalism from the Forties and Fifties, linked by anarchic and riotous autobiographical commentary. Laying bare the heart of a witty, belligerent and vigorous writer, this manifesto of Mailer's key beliefs contains pieces on his war experiences in the Philippines (the basis for his famous first novel The Naked and the Dead), tributes to fellow novelists William Styron, Saul Bellow, Truman Capote and Gore Vidal and magnificent polemics against pornography, advertising, drugs and politics. Also included is his notorious exposition of the phenomenon of the 'White Negro', the Beat Generation's existentialist hero whose life, like Mailer's, is 'an unchartered journey into the rebellious imperatives of the self'.
Bert Stern's "Last Sitting" photographs of Marilyn Monroe enter a dialogue with Norman Mailer's rigorous biography of the actress in this virtuoso publication. The fusion of image and text makes for an intimate portrait of an infamously enigmatic woman; a celebrity who shone even in tragedy. In this bold synthesis of literary classic and...
Oswald's Tale
- 848pages
- 30 heures de lecture
A work of meticulous research and breathtaking insight, Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery asks the essential question about the Kennedy Assassination: Who was Lee Harvey Oswald? Providing the first full account of his childhood, the years under KGB surveillance in Russia and the events from his return to the United States in 1961 to his death in Dallas. Norman Mailer brilliantly reconstructs the life of this ambitious, doom-laden young man, bringing to the task not only a sober respect for the facts but the power, as America's most distinguished novelist. To invest those facts with vibrant and haunting life.
The Fight
- 256pages
- 9 heures de lecture
Muhammad Ali met George Foreman in the ring. Foreman's genius employed silence, serenity and cunning. He had never been defeated. His hands were his instrument, and 'he kept them in his pockets the way a hunter lays his rifle back into its velvet case'. This book focuses on the 1975 World... číst celé
