(Download) "Another Look at Norman Mailer, Fascinated with God and Religion (Tributes) (In Memoriam)" by The Mailer Review * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Another Look at Norman Mailer, Fascinated with God and Religion (Tributes) (In Memoriam)
- Author : The Mailer Review
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 61 KB
Description
NORMAN MAILER HAS BROKEN HIS LAST TIES WITH TIME and made passage "Into the Mystery," the title he wanted to give to his latest book summarizing his fifty years of reflections on God. His publishers, seeking a counterpoint to a temporal market of best sellers doubting or indicting Divinity for ineptitude, insisted on On God: An Uncommon Conversation. Mailer took existence and God more seriously than many a theologian and most bishops of my acquaintance do. Taking these seriously may be, in one of his favorite phrases, as good a definition of morality as we are likely to get. Mailer has been well remembered as a great writer and, at the very least, an interesting if overpowering presence in American culture for almost sixty years. It was inevitable that more than a few memorials would be generated from newspaper clips by those who never knew him. These tend to portray the sensational rather than the sensible and sensitive Mailer, a burly tousle-haired genius who grew old along with us battling at one time or another with just about everybody in his life, ex-wives, tax collectors, critics, actors in his movies, fellow guests on talk shows, and any writer contending with him for the championship crown of American letters.