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The Man Who Studied Yoga
"The Man Who Studied Yoga", a novella by Norman Mailer written in 1952, was first published in the 1956 collection ''New Short Novels 2'' then later in Mailer's 1959 miscellany ''Advertisements for Myself'' (''AFM''). It is a tale of a "writer manqué", or a writer who fails to write, reflecting some of Mailer's own anxiety in the 1950s as he tries to reinvent himself. The story's events take place on a Sunday in winter and center around Sam Slovoda, a sort of bourgeois everyman, who senses that his life is dull and even why it's dull, but cannot take the risks necessary to make it better. Sam and his situation seem to reflect what Mailer viewed as the malaise of middle-class America in the 1950s, created and maintained by the language of psychoanalysis and the privileging of the rational mind over lived experience. Mailer saw a new type of totalitarianism threatening America: that of middle-class comfort and conformity. "Yoga" examines the cost of a structured and secure middle-c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Novels
A WikiProject, or Wikiproject, is a Wikimedia movement affinity group for contributors with shared goals. WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, Wikipedia, and exist to varying degrees within sister projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikidata, and Wikisource. They also exist in different languages, and translation of articles is a form of their collaboration. During the COVID-19 pandemic, CBS News noted the role of Wikipedia's WikiProject Medicine in maintaining the accuracy of articles related to the disease. Another WikiProject that has drawn attention is WikiProject Women Scientists, which was profiled by '' Smithsonian'' for its efforts to improve coverage of women scientists which the profile noted had "helped increase the number of female scientists on Wikipedia from around 1,600 to over 5,000". On Wikipedia Some Wikipedia WikiProjects are substantial enough to engage in cooperative activities with outside organizations relevant to the field at issue. For e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Castle In The Forest
''The Castle in the Forest'' is the last novel by writer Norman Mailer, published in the year of his death, 2007. It is the story of Adolf Hitler's childhood as seen through the eyes of Dieter, a demon sent to put him on his destructive path. The novel explores the idea that Hitler was the product of incest. It forms a thematic contrast with the writer's immediately previous novel ''The Gospel According to the Son'' (1999), which deals with the early life of Jesus. It received a good deal of praise, including a glowing review from Lee Siegel of ''The New York Times Book Review'', and was the ''New York Times'' Bestseller for 2007. Structure The novel is divided into 15 books, organized initially into a summary of the findings of the SS officer tasked with investigating Hitler's ancestry, and developing into a chart of Hitler's young life. It begins with a portrait of his father and mother, followed by a book on the narrator, and then follows Hitler's life before ending with an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1956 American Novels
Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are killed for trespassing by the Huaorani people of Ecuador, shortly after making contact with them. * January 16 – Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser vows to reconquer Palestine. * January 25– 26 – Finnish troops reoccupy Porkkala, after Soviet troops vacate its military base. Civilians can return February 4. * January 26 – The 1956 Winter Olympics open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. February * February 11 – British spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean resurface in the Soviet Union, after being missing for 5 years. * February 14– 25 – The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is held in Moscow. * February 16 – The 1956 World Figure Skating Championships open in Garmisch, West Germany. * February 22 – Elvis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the deadliest conflict in human history; it resulted in 70 to 85 million fatalities, mostly among civilians. Tens of millions died due to genocides (including the Holocaust), starvation, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armies Of The Night
''The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel/The Novel as History'' is a nonfiction novel recounting the October 1967 March on the Pentagon written by Norman Mailer and published by New American Library in 1968. It won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction and the National Book Award in category Arts and Letters. Mailer's unique rendition of the non-fiction novel was perhaps his most successful example of new journalism, and received the most critical attention. ''In Cold Blood'' (1965) by Truman Capote and '' Hell's Angels'' (1966) by Hunter S. Thompson had already been published, and three months later Tom Wolfe would contribute ''The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test'' (1968). Background ''Armies of the Night'' deals with the March on the Pentagon (the October 1967 anti-Vietnam War rally in Washington, D.C.) The book emerged on the heels of two works—'' An American Dream'' and ''Why Are We in Vietnam?''—whose mixed receptions had disappointed Mailer. In fact, he was part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbary Shore
''Barbary Shore'' is Norman Mailer's second published novel, written after Mailer's great success with his 1948 debut ''The Naked and the Dead''. It concerns a protagonist who rents a room in a Brooklyn boarding house with the intention of writing a novel. Wounded during World War II, he is an amnesiac, and much of his past is a secret to him. After Rinehart & Company published the novel in 1951, it received poor reviews and sold poorly. The failure of ''Barbary Shore'' and only moderate success of Mailer's next novel, ''The Deer Park ''The Deer Park'' is a Hollywood novel written by Norman Mailer and published in 1955 by G.P. Putnam's Sons after it was rejected by Mailer's publisher, Rinehart & Company, for obscenity. Despite having already typeset the book, Rinehart claime ...'' (1955) triggered a decade-long hiatus from the novel by Mailer, which ended with the publication of '' An American Dream'' in 1965. Reviews * 1951 American novels Rinehart & Company books N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norton Anthology Of American Literature
''The Norton Anthology of American Literature'' is a compendium of various works by authors of specifically American birth or naturalization, ranging from short poems, pamphlets, and novellas to longer entries such as entire novels and philosophical pieces. This collection proceeded from a series of other anthologies including ''English Literature'' and '' Poetry.'' It was first published in 1979 by W. W. Norton & Company and is notable for the series' 2003 ''Shorter Sixth Edition''. The current general editor of the series is literary scholar Robert S. Levine Robert S. Levine is a scholar of American and African American literature. He is currently Distinguished University Professor and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park. Biography Levine received his B.A. from ... of the University of Maryland, College Park. References American anthologies W. W. Norton & Company books Publications established in 1979 {{anthology-book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Time Of Our Time
''The Time of Our Time'' is an anthology of Norman Mailer’s various literary works, published by Modern Library in 1998. The work was designed to commemorate both the fiftieth anniversary of ''The Naked and the Dead'' (1948), and Mailer’s seventy-fifth birthday. Norman Mailer edited the anthology himself, choosing to organize the content not by the chronology in which the pieces are written, but the chronology of the events that the works describe; some of the excerpts are written in the midst of the action, while others may come upon forty years of reflection. Selected texts that deal with the ancient world, however, appear out of sequence at the end of the volume. (Mailer’s explanation: “Nobody is perfect.”) Excerpts from Mailer’s most notable works, including ''The Naked and the Dead'', ''Advertisements for Myself'' (1959), "Superman Comes to the Supermarket" (1960), ''The Armies of the Night'' (1968), ''Miami and the Siege of Chicago'' (1968), ''Of a Fire on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Short Fiction Of Norman Mailer
''The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer'' is a 1967 anthology of short stories by Norman Mailer. It is grouped into eight thematic sections and contains nineteen stories, many appearing in one of Mailer's miscellanies; thirteen were published in periodicals or other anthologies before appearing in this collection. The collection was reprinted in hardcover in 1980 and some of the stories were reprinted in other volumes. The collection ranges from stories that are only a couple of sentences, like "It", to longer novellas, like "A Calculus at Heaven". All included texts represent Mailer's early career, from his first published short story in 1941 while an undergraduate at Harvard to experimental stories from the mid-sixties. The tales range in content from war to urban life to science fiction, each managing to address the conflict between the individual and the social demands that echo throughout Mailer's oeuvre. Styles differ between stories, ranging from his early narrative approach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An American Dream (novel)
''An American Dream'' is a 1965 novel by American author Norman Mailer. It was published by Dial Press. Mailer wrote it in serialized form for '' Esquire'', consciously attempting to resurrect the methodology used by Charles Dickens and other earlier novelists, with Mailer writing each chapter against monthly deadlines. The book is written in a poetic style heavy with metaphor that creates unique and hypnotising narrative and dialogue. The novel's action takes place over 32 hours in the life of its protagonist Stephen Rojack. Rojack is a decorated war-hero, former congressman, talk-show host, and university professor. He is depicted as the metaphorical embodiment of the American Dream. Background In 1963, Mailer wrote two regular columns: one on religion called "Responses and Reactions" for ''Commentary'' and one called "Big Bite" for ''Esquire''. Mailer also divorced from his third wife Jeanne Campbell and met Beverly Bentley who would become his fourth wife. Bentley had k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Why Are We In Vietnam?
''Why Are We In Vietnam?'' (''WWVN'') is a 1967 novel by the American author Norman Mailer. It focuses on a hunting trip to the Brooks Range in Alaska where a young man is brought by his father, a wealthy businessman who works for a company that makes cigarette filters and is obsessed with killing a grizzly bear. As the novel progresses, the protagonist is increasingly disillusioned that his father resorts to hunting tactics that seem dishonest and weak, including the use of a helicopter and taking credit for killing a bear. At the end of the novel, the protagonist tells the reader that he is soon going to serve in the Vietnam War as a soldier. ''WWVN'' contains vivid descriptions of Alaska; polarizing, obscene, and stream-of-consciousness narration; and shifting points of view. Mailer uses the narrative to implicitly answer the question the novel's title asks: it demonstrates the attitudes and actions of America that landed it in Vietnam. Its experimental style alienated many rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dead (Joyce Short Story)
"The Dead" is the final short story in the 1914 collection ''Dubliners'' by James Joyce. It is by far the longest story in the collection and, at 15,952 words, is almost long enough to be described as a novella. The story deals with themes of love and loss, as well as raising questions about the nature of the Irish identity. The story was well-received by critics and academics and reputedly described by T. S. Eliot as "one of the greatest short stories ever written". It was later adapted into a one-act play by Hugh Leonard and into the 1987 film '' The Dead'' written by Tony Huston and directed by John Huston. Characters * Gabriel Conroy – the main character of the story. * Kate Morkan and Julia Morkan – Gabriel and Mary Jane's aunts. They are elderly sisters who throw a party every year during Christmas time. * Mary Jane Morkan – niece of Kate and Julia Morkan. * Lily – the caretaker's daughter. * Gretta Conroy – Gabriel's wife. * Molly Ivors – a long-time acquain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
