On this occasion we will be discussing prolific author Norman Mailer. Perhaps best known for his novel The Naked and the Dead, Mailer is considered one of the most important novelists of the 20th century.
Come one, come all, to the next edition of our monthly Funzine-Libri book club! The open and informal event will be moderated by Gergő Huszti, editor at Ulpius Publishing house, and Dóra Szekers, contributing writer for Hungarian literary website www.litera.hu. The language of the event will be English.
Time: May 29th at 6:30 p.m.
Place: Libri Café Frei, Mammut II shopping Center, 2nd floor
1024 Budapest, lövőház u. 2-6. (near Moszkva tér)
1024 Budapest, lövőház u. 2-6. (near Moszkva tér)
Biography
Norman Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, and film director. Along with Truman Capote and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of creative non-fiction.
Mailer was born to a well-known Jewish family in Long Branch, New Jersey. At Harvard University, he became interested in writing and published his first story at the age of 18. After graduating in 1943, he was drafted into the U.S. Army and served in the Philippines which provided the material for his novel The Naked and the Dead, a New York Times best seller for 62 weeks that was named one of the “one hundred best novels in English language”.
Mailer wrote over 40 books, publishing 11 novels over a 59-year period.
The Naked and the Dead
A platoon of young American soldiers picks their way through treacherous terrain across the Japanese-held island of Anopopei. Caught up in the confusion of close-armed combat and preyed upon by snipers, they are pushed to the limit of human endurance. Held together only by the raw will to survive and barely sustained dreams of life beyond the maelstrom, each man finds his innermost hopes and deepest fears laid bare by the unrelenting pressure of battle.
An American Dream
War hero, ex-Congressman, a professor of popular but somewhat notorious reputation, television personality and husband of the rich and beautiful Deborah (a girl who would have been bored by a diamond as big as the Ritz), Stephen Rojack lived the American Dream. But his enviable life concealed a strange tension, the constant itch to jump, and when one day he finally cracks and strangles his luscious wife, he unleashes a personality of undreamt-of ferocity.
