Norman Mailer
Naissance 31 January 1923 · Décès 10 November 2007
Originaire de Long Branch, New Jersey, United States · Nationalité : United States · Écrit de la fiction et des essais
Norman Kingsley Mailer était un romancier, journaliste, essayiste, poète, dramaturge, scénariste et réalisateur américain.
Aux côtés de Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, John McPhee et Tom Wolfe, Mailer est considéré comme l'un des pionniers de la non-fiction narrative, un genre parfois appelé nouveau journalisme, qui superpose l'essai au roman de non-fiction. Il a reçu deux fois le prix Pulitzer et une fois le National Book Award. En 1955, Mailer, avec Ed Fancher et Dan Wolf, fonda The Village Voice, qui débuta comme un hebdomadaire consacré aux arts et à la politique, distribué à Greenwich Village. En 2005, il obtint la médaille de la contribution distinguée aux lettres américaines, décernée par la National Book Foundation.
Citations
“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 anglais “The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.”
Part 1En anglais “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 anglais “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 anglais “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 anglais
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Les livres de Norman Mailer dans l'ordre
Les livres de Norman Mailer dans l'ordre de parution, de The Naked and the Dead (1948) à 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 - 9Pourquoi sommes-nous au Vietnam?
Pourquoi sommes-nous au 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 - 17Le chant du bourreau
Le chant du bourreau1979 - 18The Essential Mailer
The Essential Mailer1982 - 19Ancient Evenings
Ancient Evenings1983 - 20Les vrais durs ne dansent pas
Les vrais durs ne dansent pas1984 - 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