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{{cquote|''An American Dream'' is Mailer’s most remarkable achievement . . . Like an ancient tragedy it is a work of fierce concentration . . . It centers on a domestic crime which is also dynastic, a crime of passion which is also political . . . It is an American Dream as ''Oedipus the | {{cquote|''An American Dream'' is Mailer’s most remarkable achievement . . . Like an ancient tragedy it is a work of fierce concentration . . . It centers on a domestic crime which is also dynastic, a crime of passion which is also political . . . It is an American Dream as ''Oedipus the King'' is a Greek dream . . . a dramatization of those possibilities in ourselves that we starve to shadows in our waking hours and that return to raven us in our dreams . . . Though the idiom of the novel is perfectly, and often brilliantly, realistic, the atmosphere is mythic. The encounters take place on the brink . . . the states of mind are extreme, rendered with an extraordinary, almost unbearable immediacy.|author=Paul Pickerel|source=''Harper’s''}} | ||
King'' is a Greek dream . . . a dramatization of those possibilities in ourselves that we starve to shadows in our waking hours and that return to raven us in our dreams . . . Though the idiom of the novel is perfectly, and often brilliantly, realistic, the atmosphere is mythic. The | |||
encounters take place on the brink . . . the states of mind are extreme, rendered with an extraordinary, almost unbearable immediacy.|author=Paul Pickerel|source=''Harper’s''}} | |||
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