Norman Mailer
Nació 31 January 1923 · Murió 10 November 2007
De Long Branch, New Jersey, United States · Nacionalidad: United States · Escribe ficción y no ficción
Norman Kingsley Mailer fue un novelista, periodista, ensayista, poeta, dramaturgo, guionista y director de cine estadounidense.
Junto a Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, John McPhee y Tom Wolfe, Mailer es considerado un innovador de la no ficción narrativa, un género a veces llamado nuevo periodismo, que superpone el ensayo a la novela de no ficción. Recibió dos veces el Premio Pulitzer y una vez el Premio Nacional del Libro. En 1955, Mailer, junto con Ed Fancher y Dan Wolf, publicó por primera vez The Village Voice, que comenzó como un semanario centrado en las artes y la política, distribuido en Greenwich Village. En 2005, obtuvo la Medalla por Contribución Distinguida a las Letras Estadounidenses otorgada por la National Book Foundation.
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“Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.”
"Hip, Hell, and the Navigator" in Western Review No. 23 Winter 1959 ; republishEn inglés “The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.”
Part 1En inglés “A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the individual soldier in that army is a more effective soldier the poorer his standard of living has been in the past.”
The Naked and the Dead, Chapter 6En inglés “Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.”
Advertisements for MyselfEn inglés “There’s that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.”
The Naked and the Dead, Chapter 11En inglés
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Los libros de Norman Mailer en orden
Los libros de Norman Mailer en el orden en que se publicaron, de The Naked and the Dead (1948) a The Castle in the Forest (2007).
- 1The Naked and the Dead
The Naked and the Dead1948 - 2Barbary Shore
Barbary Shore1951 - 3The Deer Park
The Deer Park1955 - 4The Homosexual Villain
The Homosexual Villain1955 - 5Advertisements for Myself
Advertisements for Myself1959 - 6The Presidential Papers
The Presidential Papers1963 - 7An American Dream
An American Dream1965 - 8Cannibals and Christians
Cannibals and Christians1966 - 9Why Are We in Vietnam?
Why Are We in Vietnam?1967 - 10Miami and the Siege of Chicago
Miami and the Siege of Chicago1968 - 11The Armies of the Night
The Armies of the Night1968 - 12Of a Fire on the Moon
Of a Fire on the Moon1970 - 13The Prisoner of Sex
The Prisoner of Sex1971 - 14Existential Errands
Existential Errands1972 - 15Marilyn
Marilyn1973 - 16The Fight
The Fight1975 - 17The Executioner's Song
The Executioner's Song1979 - 18The Essential Mailer
The Essential Mailer1982 - 19Ancient Evenings
Ancient Evenings1983 - 20Los tipos duros no bailan
Los tipos duros no bailan1984 - 21Harlot's Ghost
Harlot's Ghost1991 - 22Oswald's Tale
Oswald's Tale1995 - 23The Gospel According to the Son
The Gospel According to the Son1997 - 24The Castle in the Forest
The Castle in the Forest2007