Appendix: An Interview with Norman Mailer

2021 ◽  
pp. 325-334
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1998 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 213
Author(s):  
John Whalen-Bridge ◽  
Michael K. Glenday
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Author(s):  
Francisco Javier Vallina Samperio

ResumenLa segunda guerra mundial y los años posteriores a la misma dieron paso a un nuevo orden mundial en el que las personas, a merced de una alienante maquinaria social, experimentaron un progresivo deterioro de sus rasgos humanos. Las dos novelas estudiadas en el presente artículo abordan esta temática desde perspectivas distintas, pero con abundantes rasgos en común. Catch-22 utiliza fórmulas humorísticas y satíricas, mientras que The Naked and the Dead emplea un tono más sobrio y solemne. En dichas obras destacan los ambientes mecanicistas que anulan al ser humano, junto a la inexorable acción del destino o la fatalidad.Palabras clave: Joseph Heller, Norman Mailer, guerra, deshumanización, mecanicismo, entropía, destino.AbstractWorld War II and its aftermath gave way to a new world order and a mechanised society in which people progressively began losing both their human and humane traits. The two novels considered in the present study deal with these matters from different general viewpoints, but revealing several common features as well. Catch-22 uses humour and satire in its approach, whereas The Naked and the Dead adopts a more refl ective discourse of solemnity. Both works refer to mechanised environments that nullify human condition and render it insignifi cant, as they also focus on the element of destiny or fate.Key words: Joseph Heller, Norman Mailer, war, dehumanisation, mechanistic, entropy, destiny.


Philip Roth ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 242-266
Author(s):  
Ira Nadel

Roth travels with Barbara Sproul to Asia, while maintaining his opposition to the Vietnam War; his writing turns to satire in a general effort to undermine seriousness in politics and literature Baseball, long a love of Roth’s, emerges in his lengthy burlesque novel, The Great American Novel followed by his semi-autobiographical My Life as a Man (1974), a rebuke to his first wife, Maggie. In the midst of his writing, a bitter legal encounter with Norman Mailer involving the young writer Alan Lelchuk occurs, at the same time he develops a friendship with the important Jewish writer Cynthia Ozick, who admired Roth’s rewrite of Kafka, The Breast. But he also experiences sustained criticism from Irving Howe which he never forgot. Roth unexpectedly changes publishers leaving Random House for Holt with a new editor and soon-to-be friend, Aaron Asher.


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