Norman Mailer (1923–2007)
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Norman Kingsley Mailer was born on January 31, 1923 in Long Branch, N. J. and then moved with his family to Brooklyn, N. Y. Mailer later attended Harvard University and graduated with a degree in aeronautical engineering. Mailer served in the Army during World War II, and later wrote, directed, and näytä lisää acted in motion pictures. He was also a co-founder of the Village Voice and edited Disssent for nine years. Mailer has written several books including: The Armies of the Night, which won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and a Polk Award; and The Executioner's Song, which won the Pulitzer Prize. In 2005, he won the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. He published his last novel, The Castle in the Forest, in 2007. He died of acute renal failure on November 10, 2007. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
Image credit: 1967 photo by Bernard Gotfryd
Tekijän teokset
Norman Mailer: Four Books of the 1960s: An American Dream / Why Are We in Vietnam? / The Armies of the Night / Miami… (2018) 57 kappaletta
The Big Empty: Dialogues on Politics, Sex, God, Boxing, Morality, Myth, Poker and Bad Conscience in America (2006) 32 kappaletta
Norman Mailer: The Sixties: A Library of America Boxed Set (The Library of America) (2018) 12 kappaletta
Of a Small and Modest Malignancy, Wicked and Bristling With Dots (Singles Classic) (2016) 4 kappaletta
Marilyn by Norman Mailer (1973-05-03) 4 kappaletta
The homosexual villain 4 kappaletta
Shika no sono 3 kappaletta
O Grande Vazio: Diálogos sobre política, sexo, deus, boxe, moral, mito, pôquer e má consciência na América (2008) 3 kappaletta
Norman Mailer 2 Volume Hardback Collection (Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery & Harlot's Ghost) 3 kappaletta
New short novels 2 3 kappaletta
La farsa política nord-americana 2 kappaletta
Rasha to shisha. 1. 2 kappaletta
Goli in mrtvi: Prva knjiga 1 kappale
A course in film-making 1 kappale
Les Nus et les Morts 1 kappale
Norman Mailer 2 Volume Hardback Collection (Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery & Harlot's Ghost) 1 kappale
Drevne veceri I-II 1 kappale
O Fantasma da Prostituta Vol II 1 kappale
O Canto do Carrasco 1 kappale
Moderne amerikanische prosa 1 kappale
A História de Lee Oswald 1 kappale
Le Chant du bourreau, Tome II 1 kappale
The Hot Spot / The Visitors / Exposed / Tough Guys Don't Dance (Videos) (2014) — Ohjaaja — 1 kappale
Os Nus e os Mortos - 2 Volumes 1 kappale
Die Nackten und die Toten I/II 1 kappale
Die Nackten und die Toten III/IV 1 kappale
Rey del Ring 1 kappale
Barbarkysten - II 1 kappale
Barbarkysten - I 1 kappale
Wild 90 [Region 2] 1 kappale
Alastomat ja kuolleet I : romaani 1 kappale
Alastomat ja kuolleet II: romaani 1 kappale
Rasha to shisha. 2. 1 kappale
Talking of violence 1 kappale
Studies of Norman Mailer and His the Naked and the Dead, Why Are We in Vietnam?, Barbary Shore, the Armies of the… (1971) 1 kappale
The art of fiction XXXII : Norman Mailer, an interview — Avustaja — 1 kappale
1989 1 kappale
Masken des Todes und andere stories 1 kappale
Prologue : the man who studied yoga 1 kappale
Cuentos 1 kappale
Ha' aramim Vehametun 1 kappale
حكاية أوزوالد: لغز أمريكي - الكتاب الأول 1 kappale
Associated Works
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Avustaja — 452 kappaletta
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First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Avustaja — 183 kappaletta
The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats: The Beat Generation and American Culture (1999) — Avustaja — 167 kappaletta
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Avustaja — 132 kappaletta
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (2016) — Avustaja — 86 kappaletta
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Avustaja — 83 kappaletta
Last Tango in Paris: The Screenplay With Photographs From The Film (1973) — Avustaja, eräät painokset; Avustaja — 35 kappaletta
Rediscoveries II: Important Writers Select Their Favorite Works of Neglected Fiction (1988) — Avustaja — 30 kappaletta
The Village voice reader; a mixed bag from the Greenwich Village newspaper (1963) — Avustaja — 21 kappaletta
We Accuse: A Powerful Statement of the New Political Anger in America (1965) — Avustaja — 8 kappaletta
In the Teeth of War: Photographic Documentary of the March 26th, 1966, New York City Demonstration Against the War in… (1966) — Avustaja — 6 kappaletta
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Yleistieto
- Virallinen nimi
- Mailer, Norman Kingsley
Mailer, Nachem Malech (birth) - Syntymäaika
- 1923-01-31
- Kuolinaika
- 2007-11-10
- Hautapaikka
- Provincetown Cemetery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
- Kuolinpaikka
- New York, New York, USA
- Kuolinsyy
- acute renal failure
- Asuinpaikat
- Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
New York, New York, USA
Paris, France
Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA - Koulutus
- Harvard College (BS|Aeronautical Engineering|1943)
University of Paris - Ammatit
- novelist
essayist
journalist
director
screenwriter
actor - Suhteet
- Silverman, Beatrice (spouse, 1944-1952)
Morales, Adele (spouse, 1954-1961)
Campbell, Jeanne (spouse, 1962-1963)
Bentley, Beverly (spouse, 1963-1980)
Stevens, Carol (spouse, 1980-1980)
Mailer, Norris Church (spouse, 1980-2007) (näytä kaikki 7)
Malaquais, Jean (friend, translator) - Organisaatiot
- The Village Voice (co-founder)
United States Army (WWII) - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- National Book Award, Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (2005)
State Author of New York/Edith Wharton Citation of Merit (1991-93)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (1960)
F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Fiction (2000)
Emerson-Thoreau Medal (1989)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1967) (näytä kaikki 13)
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1969, 1980)
National Book Award (1969)
Edward MacDowell Medal (1973)
George Polk Award (1969)
National Arts Club Gold Medal of Honor in Literature (1976)
Harvard University's Signet Society Medal for Achievement in the Arts (1970, 1994)
Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class (2002)
Jäseniä
Keskustelut
Norman Mailer, Legacy Libraries (helmikuu 2014)
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Norman Mailer - love him or hate him - had a mastery of the language that very few could rival. It is apparent in all his works, including "Ancient Evenings", which takes place at a variety of Egyptian locales, from royal dinners to family barge rides, from distant mining camps to tombs. Much of the story is told in flashback, much of it recited by a ponderous old man. The highlights of the book are:
a) Mailer's immense knowledge of the age. I adored Ancient Egypt as a study topic when a student, and still I'm not sure how much of this is verified/historically theorised truth, and how much is Mailer's imagination. Either way, he creates a world in which every cultural nuance and spoken idiosyncracy feels foreign and yet genuine;
b) That sense of magic - speculative fiction, I guess we'd call it now - that allows us never to be sure what is real, without ever succumbing to the dreaded "fantasy"; and
c) yes, it is true: Mailer's ability to tell those lecherous tales while rarely coming across as just a perv.
As others have said, this book will beguile or disgust: sodomy and incest (sometimes both!) are high on the agenda, and Mailer is as unapologetic as his characters.
I would never call this book my favourite, not by a long shot: like many works, I appreciate it as much intellectually as I do viscerally. For instance, Menenhetet speaks using a lot of similes and analogies, often quite ponderously. It makes reading this book a tougher experience than one would like, but this is a genuine part of the character and his culture, not a flaw in Mailer's writing.
In the end, this is a work that won't speak to anyone. It's highly idiosyncratic, explores many abstract or challenging themes, and takes no pains to explain itself until it feels the time is right. However, by the same token, the novel refuses to pander to cliche or the simple answers, and is one of those amazing books where - by the time you're reading the final chapters - you realise how strange and incomprehensible they would be to the uninitiated, yet they make perfect sense to you. "Ancient Evenings" makes you work for your reward, and in this case the reward is a fantastic and unsettling portrayal of life in Egypt under the Pharaohs, and of a world so far removed from our own. The final chapter is startlingly beautiful, and puts my previous favourite literary ending - that of "The Great Gatsby" - to shame. Lovely.… (lisätietoja)