Norman To net

Norman Kingsley Mailer was a American writer, born the January 31st 1923 with Long Branch, New Jersey (the United States) and deceased the November 10th 2007 with New York (the United States).

Biography

Wire of Isaac Barnett, a Jewish accountant originating in South Africa, and in Fanny Schneider, manager of an agency of cleaning lady, it is high with Brooklyn, and between the Université Harvard in 1939 where it studies the Ingénierie Aéronautique. It is discovered an interest for the writing and publishes there its first history at 18 years.

Enlisted in the American Armed , it takes part in the Second world war in the Pacifique South. In 1948, right before entering to the Sorbonne (with Paris) it writes The Naked and the Dead , based on its experiment of the war in the Pacifique, which makes it famous.

Following years, Norman To net written scripts for Hollywood which for the majority are refused. About the middle of the Years 1950, tried by the Marxism and the Atheism, he becomes a famous writer “ anti-Establishment ” and Libertaire. In The White Negro: Superficial Reflections one the Hipster (1956) and Advertisements for Myself (1959), it treats violence, Hystérie, crimes and distress of the American company . Its work, divided between a Realism inherited John Back Passos and a journalistic writing near to Ernest Hemingway, wants to be the conscience in awakening of the injustices of time, American political overflows and dramas which result from this. Also, tries it to study, in an often provocative way, the Névrose S and Pathologie S of a Western company constantly in crisis of values. It was one of the emblems of the opposition to the Guerre of Vietnam in the the Sixties and 70.

Norman Mailer is also known as biographer, it for example wrote on Marilyn Monroe, Pablo Picasso, and Lee Harvey Oswald.

He married six times and has nine children (of which an adoptee with his last wife - Matthew Norris Mailer). In 1960, it attacks with blows of penknife his second wife (Adele) at the time of a festival. It only is slightly wounded, and will not carry not felt sorry for against Mailer.

The writer-journalist one is accustomed of the rewards: he received in the United States the Prix Pulitzer for the Armies of the night in 1969, and again in 1980, for the Song of the torturer before receiving, in 1983, the badge of Commander of the Ordre of Arts and the Letters on behalf of the France and the March 3rd 2006, the Légion of honor of the hands of the ambassador of France to the the United States.

The Big Empty" (" large the vide"), a dialog intergénérationnel on the Political , the Religion, the Sport, the Culture, women. Very disputed with the the United States as in Europe, its new work: a castle in forest (2007) reconsiders the youth of Adolf Hitler of which it halfway gives an interpretation between the Psychanalyse and the Métaphysique in order to include/understand how was born the Evil in the spirit from Hitler.

He dies the November 10th 2007 with New York, at the hospital Mount the Sinai of the continuations of an impaired renal function.

Works

(1948) the naked ones and deaths
(1951) Shore of Cruelty
(1955) the park with the stags
(1956) The White Negro: Superficial Reflections is one the Hipster
(1959) Publicités for myself
(1966) an American dream
(1967) Pourquoi us in Vietnam?
(1968) Armies of the night
(1968) Miami and the Seat off Chicago
(1970) Bivouac on the moon
(1971) Captive of the sex
(1974) a stone with the paradise and other news
(1979) Song of the Torturer
(1982) imaginary Memories of Marilyn Monroe
(1983) Mists of time
(1984) hard truths does not dance
(1988) the combat of the century
(1992) Harlot and its phantom
(1995) Oswald. An American mystery
(1998) the Gospel according to the son
(1999) America. Tests, reports, ruminations
(2003) Pourquoi let us be us in war?
(2004) Portrait of Picasso as an young man
(2007) a Castle in forest

Catalog of films

(1958) the naked ones and deaths " (Coscénariste)

(1967) Wild 90 (actor)

(1968) Above the laws (actor)

(1969) Maidstone (Actor)

(1981) Ragtime (Milos Forman) (actor)

(1986) hard truths does not dance (realizer)

(1987) King Lear (Jean-Luc Godard) (actor)

(1996) When we were kings

Price

1969 - Price Pulitzer for “the Armies of the night”
1980 - Price Pulitzer for “the Song of the torturer”
2001 - blue Metropolis Grand Prix

Anecdote

To net is mentioned in the song Give Peace has Chance John Lennon, like in the song Santa Monica of Savage Garden.

Quotation

I feel rather unhappy because of my country. It did not become also large, as noble as I wished it.

“The Fascisme is only the emergence of an doctrinaire approach associated with an oppressive concept”

Documentary

2004 : Norman To net, stories of America of Richard Copans and Stan Neumann (ED. Montparnasse - 157 mn - DVD)

External bonds

Apostrophes, December 19th, 1980: Television program devoted to Norman To net. It speaks there about its book " Song of the bourreau" and reconsiders moments of its life of writer and journalist.

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