The Armies of the Night
Author: Norman Mailer
Translator: Taek-young Kwon
Publisher: Minumsa
447 pages | 226*130mm
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About This Book
History as a Novel, the Novel as History
The Armies of the Night" is Norman Mailer's first hand account of the
events surrounding the march on the Pentagon in Washington D.C. in the
fall of 1967. He begins by quoting a news story from "Time" which speaks
of his drunken behavior at an event the night before, and then goes on
to say that he wants to tell what really happened. Essentially he
explains his actions during that weekend as an attempt to wake people
out of their lethargy about the war. He felt that even by antagonizing
people, he would be helping to energize support for the anti-war
movement. Other people involved in the march were Noam Chmosky, the
linguist, Robert Lowell, the poet and Dwight MacDonald, the literary
critic. The book, according to Mailer, applies the techniques of the
novelist to the recounting of history. --Jack Goodstein
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