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{{dc|dc=N|orman Mailer is very concerned}} with the American “identity,” not just with the shape and soul of the country as a whole, but also with the individual identity of “the” American. He searches for the characteristics he thinks of as essential to the real American identity. One of the most central and long lasting myths in American society is that of the “American Dream,” the idea that anyone, anywhere, is capable of becoming successful. | |||
In his 1965 novel, ''An American Dream'', Mailer deconstructs the outlived interpretation of this all-American phenomenon and, at the same time, constructs his own, new and much more individual and existentially-rooted vision. He gives his own idiosyncratic view on the American “soul” and thus creates his own American myth. | In his 1965 novel, ''An American Dream'', Mailer deconstructs the outlived interpretation of this all-American phenomenon and, at the same time, constructs his own, new and much more individual and existentially-rooted vision. He gives his own idiosyncratic view on the American “soul” and thus creates his own American myth. | ||
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