Norman Mailer’s Later Fictions: Ancient Evenings through Castle in the Forest

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Absolutely Dauntless: A Quarter-Century of Sex, God, Politics, and Fame....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
From Egypt to Provincetown, By Trump Air: Modernist History and the Return of the Repressed in Ancient Evenings and Tough Guys Don’t Dance....Pages 15-33
Mailer and the “Diet of Reality”: Tough Guys Don’t Dance and American Values....Pages 35-51
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Mailer’s “Gnostic” Gospel....Pages 55-72
A Jew for Jesus? A Jewish Reading of Norman Mailer’s The Gospel According to the Son....Pages 73-84
Augustinian Evil in The Gospel According to the Son and The Castle in the Forest: A Case for Non-Dualism....Pages 85-102
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
Imperial Mailer: Ancient Evenings....Pages 105-122
Spooks and Agencies: Harlot’s Ghost and the Culture of Secrecy....Pages 123-138
The Nazi Occult and The Castle in the Forest: Raw History and Fictional Transformation....Pages 139-156
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
History Looks at Itself: On the Road with the Mailers and George Plimpton....Pages 159-180
Late Mailer: His Writing and Reputation since Ancient Evenings....Pages 181-192
Afterword: Norman as Editor....Pages 193-194
Back Matter....Pages 195-203