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{{abstract | {{Byline|last=Bufithis|first=Philip|abstract=What Mailer attempts in ''The Executioner’s Song'' is a modernist project that puts him in high company. No Mailer book brings us as close to events and character as this work of creative nonfiction. Its unperformative, transparent style allows our consciousness to flow into its movement so that we find ourselves intimately inhabiting a world. Removing himself, Mailer has put us in his place.|url=https://prmlr.us/mr07bufi}} | ||
Critics in the 1970s said Mailer’s star was dimming. He was slipping; he kept writing in the same key. When ''[[The Executioner's Song|The Executioner’s Song]]'' appeared in 1979, they reconsidered. It became a bestseller, won a Pulitzer, and attracted a young readership, which Mailer had not enjoyed since 1967 with ''[[The Armies of the Night]]''. His new book surprised expectations in two ways now regarded as truisms: it is written in a plain direct style, and the Mailer persona is absent. | Critics in the 1970s said Mailer’s star was dimming. He was slipping; he kept writing in the same key. When ''[[The Executioner's Song|The Executioner’s Song]]'' appeared in 1979, they reconsidered. It became a bestseller, won a Pulitzer, and attracted a young readership, which Mailer had not enjoyed since 1967 with ''[[The Armies of the Night]]''. His new book surprised expectations in two ways now regarded as truisms: it is written in a plain direct style, and the Mailer persona is absent. | ||
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