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The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History
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The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History

Written by Norman Mailer

Narrated by Scott Brick

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

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The Armies of the Night chronicles the famed October 1967 March on the Pentagon, in which all of the old and new Left—hippies, yuppies, Weathermen, Quakers, Christians, feminists, and intellectuals—came together to protest the Vietnam War. Alongside his contemporaries, Mailer went, witnessed, participated, suffered, and then wrote one of the most stark and intelligent appraisals of the 1960s: its myths, heroes, and demons. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and a cornerstone of New Journalism, The Armies of the Night is not only a fascinating foray into that mysterious terrain between novel and history, fiction and nonfiction, but also a key chapter in the autobiography of Norman Mailer—who, in this nonfiction novel, becomes his own great character, letting history in all its complexity speak through him.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateSep 6, 2016
ISBN9781522636878
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History
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Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer (1923-2007) ha sido uno de los mayores escritores norteamericanos contemporáneos, así como una figura central en el panorama cultural: novelista, periodista, director de cine, activista político, aspirante a alcalde de Nueva York y enfant terrible todoterreno. Su primera novela, Los desnudos y los muertos, sobre la Segunda Guerra Mundial, que lo catapultó a la fama, ha sido publicada por Anagrama, donde también han aparecido Los ejércitos de la noche (Premio Pulitzer y National Book Award), La Canción del Verdugo (Premio Pulitzer), Oswald. Un misterio americano, Los tipos duros no bailan, El parque de los ciervos, El Evangelio según el Hijo, El fantasma de Harlot, ¿Por qué estamos en guerra?, América y El castillo en el bosque.

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Gives one writer's perspective on the Vietnam War and how it tore our country apart. Provides details of several anti-war protests that Mailer attended.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    I enjoyed the book. Mailer? A walking, talking Ego that dominated the literary scene in America for far too long.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    This book to me had a lot of potential, but I just could not get into it. It was very dry. History doesn't have to be dry and yet this book was like the Sahara Desert to me.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    50 years later, knowing what we know now, it loses much of its currency. Still a good read.