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) 56 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
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Associated Works
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Avustaja — 451 kappaletta
Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas (1997) — Avustaja — 429 kappaletta
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 — 131 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 — 81 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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Merkitty avainsanalla
Yleistieto
- Kanoninen nimi
- Mailer, Norman
- 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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Mickey Lovett rents a room; he calculates he has enough money to last for a couple of months and he wants the peace and quiet to write a novel. He is suffering from amnesia after being injured during the war. He soon finds too many distractions to work at his writing; the first is Guinevere his well rounded landlady who teases him with her sexuality, which seems to be echoed by her precocious four year old daughter Momina. Then there is McLeod an intellectual who fascinates Lovett with his books and knowledge and Mickey finds himself wanting to 'sit at his feet' in his room upstairs. Another tenant Hollingsworth seems to want to get Mickey on his side in a dispute with McLeod. Finally there is Lannie a woman hurt by electric shock treatment suffered in a mental institute and now in love with Guinevere. It soon becomes apparent that the rooming house is a hot bed of intrigue. McLeod is a revolutionary, a socialist who may have committed murder, Hollingsworth works for the Bureau and is intent on breaking McCleod who is now a fugitive. Lannie has been a follower of McLeod and Guinevere has a mysterious husband who visits her from time to time.
The novel is written in the first person from the point of view of Mickey who with his amnesia represents a 'tabla rasa' for ideas. McLeod is the intellectual revolutionary, Hollingsworth works for a government intelligence agency and Lannie is a woman damaged by her past. Mickey slowly puts all this together as he finds himself a witness to the drama which unfolds in McLeod's room. Hollingsworth suspect's that McLeod has stolen something from the government and undertakes a series of gruelling interviews. McLeod describes himself as a revolutionary socialist, believing that Capitalism will destroy itself and he wants to be prepared to take advantage, but admits that:
it is the paradox of the revolutionary who seeks to create a world in which he would find it intolerable to live.
Man is only capable of founding societies based on privilege and inequality.
However the book becomes a battle of wills between Hollingsworth and McLeod with Mickey and Lannie witnessing the struggle and trying to sort out their own relationships with Guinevere. There are long speeches by McLeod justifying his position, but also wondering if the struggle has been worth the sacrifices he has made. Where does love come into all this? he asks.
In 1951 when the novel was published, some American intellectuals were reeling under the aggressive accusations from Senator McCarthy of un-American activities. Norman Mailer does not hold back in challenging what he calls state capitalism: McLeod is by no means the bad guy and the outcome seems to hinge on which side Mickey Lovett will fall. Looking back from our subsequent knowledge of the author and his viewpoint it could be argued that the two female characters and the little girl do become, kind of collateral damage with the men battling away in the room upstairs. However I do think it is a brave piece of fiction writing and Mailer creates tension in his description of the relationships, within the household, with everybody suffering during the blistering heat of summer. Politics and sexual politics are king here and the reader will judge for himself whether Mailer presents us with a naive or more nuanced view of the world. Much better than expected and so 3.5 stars.… (lisätietoja)