One could calmly speak of a Jewish literature throughout the world because there were and are many great storytellers with those Jewish roots that link great and disparate authors such as Asimov, Paul auster, Philip Roth (among many others) and a Norman Mailer brought here today as just recognition of an intense, varied and extensive bibliography.
La Mailer's passion for biographical made him the literary voice of transcendental characters of the twentieth century. From those who was able to extract that epic point towards the hagiographic but also transformative in the darkest of the past or the circumstances of the protagonist on duty, sometimes through very controversial reviews.
But perhaps it is what it takes to hire a novelist to act as a biographer. The pen of the most creative storyteller ends up taking on that fictional life, for better or for worse.
Beyond his biographical side, Mailer also wrote great novels made classics of the twentieth century. Let's go with it ...
Top 3 Recommended Norman Mailer Novels
The naked and the dead
A guy like Mailer, who never wanted to join the army, recovers the bitterness of his time in the rear after World War II. All was won and his mission was to occupy Japanese territory until he made sure that the defeat was complete.
From his experiences projected exponentially towards the nakedness of the worst miseries of war, Mailer takes us to his island of Anopopei where Sergeant Croft and soldiers Hearn, Ridges, Red and Gallagher follow the orders of a General Cummings determined to follow orders superiors of kicking that island even at the cost of crossing minefields and facing dangers on an islet that may have little to do with a nucleus where to settle the final victory. Each character loaded with a spiritual verisimilitude between lights and shadows of the human condition faces as he can the harsh existence of those days between impossible balances between morals, essential survival drives, animosity and hope.
The fight
No, it is not a novel. Or it wasn't at first, when Mailer traveled to the once-known country of Zaire to follow up on the boxing match between Foreman and Muhammad Ali.
But over time a chronicle of this embergadura becomes an adventure story without parallel. And that is how it is read today, with that aftertaste of the brilliant moments of the past from the sports, the human and even the sociopolitical. And I will not tell you anything if the person in charge of composing that chronicle is a passionate Mailer, convinced of his role as an essential chronicler of lives and events, steeped in the relevance of an event to determine the strongest man in the world on the twelve strings as a struggle that surpasses reality, fiction and even life.
The final act was on October 30, 1974. It was known as the "fight in the jungle" and the contest was fought in Ali's favor by KO in the eighth round. Mailer was there before, during and after, approaching both boxers and contextualizing everything with his interest in enhancing reality with the fullest flavor of literature.
Tough guys don't dance
The writer in front of the mirror. The presentation of the usual balance between creation and destruction as poles that rub against each other in their natural coexistence.
Tim Madden is a writer who tackles between hells that spark that launches him to the brightest creativity. Lost in his early days of marital abandonment, Madden finds himself waking up to a gruesome scene of blood and death. There are no quite true memories in the longest nights and given over to lust and excesses. Madden suspects that it may have been Mr Hyde just before he succumbed to the dream.
Fear grips him but doubts lead him to try to reconstruct what happened the night before. Only that the steps back lead him to sordid spaces full of characters hopelessly condemned to darkness, needing only drugs and sex to continue to bury their existence. Feeling the classic springs of escape from morality, the author, or rather his protagonist Madden, give us that tour on the wild side of life.
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