The Mailer Review/Volume 2, 2008/On The Armies of the Night: Difference between revisions

From Project Mailer
m (Reverted edits by MSanders (talk) to last revision by Jules Carry)
Tag: Rollback
m (Protected "The Mailer Review/Volume 2, 2008/On The Armies of the Night" ([Edit=Allow only administrators] (expires 16:13, 10 September 2020 (UTC)) [Move=Allow only administrators] (expires 16:13, 10 September 2020 (UTC))))
(No difference)

Revision as of 12:13, 9 September 2020

« The Mailer ReviewVolume 2 Number 1 • 2008 • In Memorium: Norman Mailer: 1923–2007 »
Written by
Neil Gordon
Abstract: To treat The Armies of the Night as simply an explanation of an historical period is a simplification, and it is especially relevant that the heart of this book is a meditation on the competing claims of three forms of knowing the past—the journalistic, the historical, and the novelistic. That Mailer comes down so clearly on the side of the novelistic is in no doubt. The finest writing of this book comes not in the first half of the book in which Mailer describes his actual experience, nor in the historical or journalistic analysis but, precisely, in Mailer’s descriptions of those parts of the March on the Pentagon which he did not experience.
Note: This paper was presented on October 19, 2007 at Georgetown University. The conference was the “40th anniversary conference on The March on the Pentagon/The Armies of the Night.”
URL: https://prmlr.us/mr08gord

Work Cited

Mailer, Norman (1968). The Armies of the Night. New York: NAL.