Volume 10, Number 12 · June 20, 1968
Confessions of the Last American
By Conor Cruise O'Brien
The Armies of the Night: History As Novel; The Novel As History
by Norman Mailer
New American Library, 304 pp., $5.95
As one who dislikes Sean O'Casey's autobiographies, I start with a strong prejudice against authors who write about themselves in the third person, and who have no fear of bombast. It was therefore with some of the feeling of a Christian being dunked in the Ganges that I immersed myself in the Mailerian prose. I had read The Naked and the Dead many years before, and with admiration, but since then I had read only excerpts from his other works. Selected by reviewers who were perhaps unfriendly, these excerpts led me to believe that I must have been wrong the first time.
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