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Cargando... El parque de los ciervos (1955)por Norman Mailer
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. "I went to Palm Springs, and I didn't much care for it." You could, I guess, say that that's "The Deer Park" in a nutshell, but there's more to this book than mere moral censoriousness or lurid exposé. I haven't read much Mailer -- this is just the second book by him that I've ever read -- but the writing here is fantastic: crisp, forceful, masculine, and flowing. Reading it's like watching a really good pianist going after something stern and atonal with marvelously controlled intensity. Mailer's basic tool here is satire, and some film fans will, I suppose, have some fun trying to match the book's characters to their real-life analogues. Beyond that, though, I liked "The Deer Park" because there's so much about people that Mailer seems to get right in it: it offers an exquisitely informed description of the egoism of actors, the self-defeating egotism of many who who try to create art, perhaps most frighteningly, the weird mix of sentimentality and greed that motivates so many of the truly powerful. There's also pimp, self-made philosopher, and dead-eyed madnman Marion Faye, a portrait of a thoroughly destructive personality that's enormously chilling and, in its way, far ahead of its time. There is a lot of sex, indulgence, and general moral decay here: the novel's air of plush, seedy degeneracy is one of its attractions. You can see why a publisher of that time might have rejected it as obscene. But much of sexual content manages to be both bracingly frank enormously arousing, and I tend to think that writing about sex without seeming prurient or too self-serious is harder than it sounds. But the book is also an invigorating mix of literary and the unabashedly pulpy, beating writers like James Elroy and Robert Stone to this combination by at least twenty years. There's a recurrent religious analogy here that I think Mailer might take too far, and it is, I think, the only moment in which the book slips a little. Also, I found that the book, for all the scandal it contains, perhaps a bit too long and a bit too slowly paced, though that may simply be a reflection of its louche desert setting. I don't think that "The Deer Park" is one of Mailer's better-regarded books, but perhaps it's due for a revival. Few pieces of real-deal literature I've ever read sizzle so tantalizingly while going so deep. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Consagrado ya como uno de las grandes patriarcas de la literatura norteamericana contempornea, Mailer ser, sin embargo, genio y figura hasta el fin, y la vejez no ha atemperado su espritu iconoclasta y combativo, ni su capacidad para sorprender al lector. En esta novela, publicada en 1955 y uno de sus ttulos ms msticos, Mailer se propuso, segn sus propias palabras, escribir una novela sobre el sexo. Pero el sexo entendido como la ltima frontera de la literatura an no explorada enteramente, ni agotada, por los novelistas del siglo diecinueve y la primera mitad del veinte. Calificada tambin como una historia de amor y odio con Hollywood, pocas veces las grandezas y las miserias del mundo del cine y sus merodeadores han sido expuestas con tal desnudez, con tamaa causticidad.Slo un escritor con el inmenso y subversivo talento de Norman Mailer podra haber escrito este libro (The New Yorker).Norman Mailer (New Jersey, 1923) es uno de los mayores escritores norteamericanos contemporneos, as como una figura central en el panorama cultural: novelista, director de cine, activista poltico, aspirante a alcalde de Nueva York y enfant terrible todo terreno. Su primera novela, Los desnudos y los muertos, sobre la Segunda Guerra Mundial, lo catapult a la fama. Despus ha publicado ms de veinte libros, entre novelas, reportajes y ensayos, con los que ha obtenido los ms prestigiosos premios literarios. Dos de ellos fueron galardonados con el Pulitzer, Los ejrcitos de la noche (que obtuvo tambin el National Book Award) y La cancin del Verdugo, ambos publicados por Anagrama, al igual que Los tipos duros no bailan y El parque de los ciervos. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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A roman à clef, the metaphorical "Deer Park" is Desert D'Or, California (a fictionalized Palm Springs). A fashionable desert resort, Hollywood's elite converge there for fun and games and relaxation. The novel's protagonist, Sergius O'Shaughnessy (a recently discharged Air Force officer), is a would-be novelist who experiences the moral depravity of the Hollywood community first hand.