노먼 메일러

《나자와 사자》는 노먼 메일러의 장편소설이다. 제2차 대전에 참가한 메일러는 전후 일본 지바 현에 주둔했다. 이 작품은 그동안에 구상된 것으로, 가공적인 남태평양의 섬 아노포페이를 무대로, 커밍스 장군이 인솔하는 사단이 일본군을 괴멸시키는 이야기이다. 그 격전 속에서 권력자 커밍스 장군, 지배욕에 사로잡힌 클로프트 중사를 비롯하여 비인도적인 군대조직을 폭로, 전쟁의 잔학성을 실감있게 포착한 전쟁문학의 최고 걸작으로서 온 세계의 주목을 받았다. "미국은 잠재적 에너지를 전쟁으로써 해결하려고 하지만, 병사는 누구 하나도 전쟁을 인정하지 않는다. 국가적 폭력에 의한 …

Advertisements for Myself is an omnibus collection of short works and fragments by Norman Mailer, linked with commentaries supplied by the author himself. The collection, which was published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 1959, features stories from Mailer's days as a student at Harvard College as well as later works, …

An American Dream is Norman Mailer's fourth novel, 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 …

Ancient Evenings is a novel by American author Norman Mailer. It deals with the lives of two protagonists, one young, one old, in a very alien Ancient Egypt marked by journeys by the dead, reincarnation, and violent and hyper-sexual gods and mortals in a complex combination of historical fiction, allegory, poetic …

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 …