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S'està carregant… The Executioner's Song (1979 original; edició 1979)de Norman Mailer
Informació de l'obraThe Executioner's Song de Norman Mailer (1979)
   1970s (58) True Crime Books (22) » 18 més True Crime (35) 501 Must-Read Books (294) Favorite Long Books (242) Rory Gilmore Book Club (166) Swinging Seventies (122) No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra.   ) betty_s | Oct 7, 2023 |  Additionally, there were some seriously questionable grammatical choices by Mailer here. Not talking about the letters, those I understand. But sentence structure, punctuation, and paragraph groupings were almost as disturbing as the content. [Almost.] (  ) ilkjen | May 3, 2023 | ) Jonathan5 | Feb 20, 2023 | Natt90 | Jan 17, 2023 |  ) jwhenderson | Aug 26, 2022 |
 Mailer's massive study of the Gilmore case is unlikely to have the impact its author expected. All journalism dates, and this is not so much the higher as the longer journalism: 1,056 big pages and far too many facts. The value of this sedulous accumulation was presumably intended to rest on the uniqueness of Gilmore's rejection of penal liberalism, but Gilmore has ceased to be unique. Style will not preserve the book, since it has no style... What we might have expected from The Executioner's Song is a Mailerian mystico-astrologico-metaphysical expatiation on the significance of Gilmore – quasi-existential victim-hero – in a culture increasingly selling out to evil, but there is no commentary as there is no style. The question must finally be asked: why bother? Granted that every human soul may be worthy of 1,056 pages, why should a cold murderer with a certain capacity for love and poetry be deemed worthier of such expensive celebration than the harmless grocer of Gissing's New Grub Street? PremisDistincionsLlistes notables
In what is arguably his greatest book--written in 1979 and reissued here in trade paperback--America's most heroically ambitious writer follows the short, blighted career of Gary Gilmore, an intractably violent product of America's prisons who---after robbing two men and killing them in cold blood--insisted on dying for his crime. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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