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__NOTOC__ | ''Barbary Shore'' (1951) is of more interest as a stage in Mailer’s development than as a artistically effective work in itself. Certainly it fits easily into a treatment of the five novels, dealing as it does with the two basic issues with which Mailer always concerns himself: the state of American society and the problems of the individual in it. But the second novel, for several reasons, marks a faltering in Mailer’s progress. This is not to say that it is a retrogression, for though it falls short of the artistic success of ''The Naked and the Dead'', ''Barbary Shore'' represents a step in the direction of an increasingly nonderivative art. | ||
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''Barbary Shore'' (1951) is of more interest as a stage in Mailer’s development than as | |||
Perhaps ''Barbary Shore'' can be better understood in light of the circumstances under which it was written, and of Mailer’s own retrospective understanding of the book. In ''Advertisements for Myself'', he tells of the several years following the publication of ''The Naked and the Dead'', during which ''Barbary Shore'' was written: | Perhaps ''Barbary Shore'' can be better understood in light of the circumstances under which it was written, and of Mailer’s own retrospective understanding of the book. In ''Advertisements for Myself'', he tells of the several years following the publication of ''The Naked and the Dead'', during which ''Barbary Shore'' was written: | ||