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Автор: Mailer Norman
Название: Selected Essays of Norman Mailer
Перевод названия: Норман Мэйлер: Избранное
ISBN: 9780812993479
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Классификация: ISBN-10: 0812993470
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Вес: 0.93 кг.
Дата издания: 15.10.2013
Язык: English
Поставляется из: США
Описание: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Norman Mailer was one of the towering figures of twentieth-century American letters and an acknowledged master of the essay. Mind of an Outlaw, the first posthumous publication from this outsize literary icon, collects Mailers most important and representative work in the form that many rank as his most electrifying.
As Americas foremost public intellectual, Norman Mailer was a ubiquitous presence in our national life--on the airwaves and in print--for more than sixty years. With his supple mind and pugnacious persona, he engaged society more than any other writer of his generation. The trademark Mailer swagger is much in evidence in these pages as he holds forth on culture, ideology, politics, sex, gender, and celebrity, among other topics. Here is Mailer on boxing, Mailer on Hemingway, Mailer on Marilyn Monroe, and, of course, Mailer on Mailer--the one subject that served as the beating heart of all of his nonfiction.
From his early essay A Credo for the Living, published in 1948, when the author was twenty-five, to his final writings in the year before his death, Mailer wrestled with the big themes of his times. He was one of the most astute cultural commentators of the postwar era, a swashbuckling intellectual provocateur who never pulled a punch and was rarely anything less than interesting. Mind of an Outlaw spans the full arc of Mailers evolution as a writer, including such essential pieces as his acclaimed 1957 meditation on hipsters, The White Negro; multiple selections from his seminal collection Advertisements for Myself; and a never-before-published essay on Sigmund Freud.
Incendiary, erudite, and unrepentantly outrageous, Norman Mailer was a dominating force on the battlefield of ideas. Featuring an incisive Introduction by Jonathan Lethem, Mind of an Outlaw forms a fascinating portrait of Mailers intellectual development across the span of his career as well as the preoccupations of a nation in the last half of the American century.
Praise for Mind of an Outlaw

Mailers] best and brightest.--Esquire

The fifty essays collected in this retrospective volume span sixty-four years and show Norman] Mailer (1923-2007) at his brawny, pugnacious, and egotistical best. . . . This provocative collection brims with insights and reflections that show why Mailer is regarded as a great literary mind of his generation.--Publishers Weekly

The selections open a window onto the capacious mind and process of one of the most volatile intellects of the twentieth century.--Library Journal

Vintage Mailer: brilliant, infuriating, witty and never, ever boring.--Tampa Bay Times
As good an introduction to Mailers habits of mind as theres ever been.--Kirkus Reviews

Theres no arguing about Mailer the essayist--he was outstanding. . . . These insightful essays educate, argue and persuade on everything from politics and literature to film, philosophy and the human condition.--Shelf Awareness

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