The Mailer Review/Volume 2, 2008/The Wise Blood of Norman Mailer: An Interpretation and Defense of Why Are We in Vietnam?
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Written by
Richard Lee Fulgham
Abstract: Why Are We in Vietnam? is a novel that calls for reassessment four decades after its appearance, particularly as a work of satiric allegory.
URL: https://prmlr.us/mr08fulg
Richard Lee Fulgham
Abstract: Why Are We in Vietnam? is a novel that calls for reassessment four decades after its appearance, particularly as a work of satiric allegory.
URL: https://prmlr.us/mr08fulg
Among the imperceptive and raucous commentaries on Mailer’s novels, this remark by Anatole Broyard stands out as refreshingly clear: “the rock he throws usually has a message tied to it.”[1] In the case of Why Are We in Vietnam?, the rock has been given much more attention than the message because it hit us at the wrong time and in an extraordinarily sensitive spot.
Notes
Citations
- ↑ Broyard 1967, p. 4.
Works Cited
- Broyard, Anatole (1967). "A Disturbnce of the Peace". New York Times.
- Mailer, Norman (1966). Cannibals and Christians. New York: Dial.
- — (1959). "The White Negro". Advertisements for Myself. New York: Putnam. pp. 357–358.
- — (1967). Why Are We in Vietnam?. New York: Putnam.