Norman Mailer At 100: Conversations, Correlations, Confrontations

Norman Mailer at 100 celebrates the authorÆs centenary in 2023 and the seventy-fifth anniversary of the publication of his bestselling debut novel, The Naked and the Dead, by illustrating how Mailer remains a provocative presence in American letters. Novelist and Mailer scholar Robert J. Begiebing lays out how this polymath authorÆs work makes vital contributions to the larger American literary landscape, encompassing the debates of the nationÆs founders, the traditions of Western Romanticism, and the juggernaut of twentieth-century modernism. The book includes six critical essays, two creative dialogues featuring Walt Whitman and Ernest Hemingway, and BegiebingÆs own interview with Mailer from 1983. Each piece pairs Mailer with a critical interlocutor whose work offers telling revelations about his ideas and art, among them Ralph Waldo Emerson, Carl Jung, Kate Millett, and Joan Didion. By encouraging a reconsideration of his career from its beginnings to his final books in the early twenty-first century, Norman Mailer at 100 forges a new path toward appreciating the authorÆs achievements that underscores the extent to which his work can help us confront the challenges of today.

• | Author: Robert J. Begiebing
• | Publisher: Lsu Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 23, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 248 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 0807178136
• | ISBN-13: 9780807178133