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Their answer? Create an art that wakes people up. Show life as it really is, even if it disturbs. | Their answer? Create an art that wakes people up. Show life as it really is, even if it disturbs. | ||
Critics accused Hemingway and Mailer of glamorizing death. In truth, their use of violence was deeply philosophical. They believed the cultural obsession with superficial success killed individuality. | |||
Mailer’s Rojack, like Hemingway’s matador, must face death to break from the lie. Their works confront readers with uncomfortable truths: the death of authenticity, of imagination, of self. | |||