9/1/2023 0 Comments 1985 anthony burgess pdfThat the book was stylistically derivative was either overlooked or pardoned: it owed a great deal to John Dos Passos, and its subject matter-like that of most American best sellers-was too important for its readers to wish to niggle over distinction or individuality in the writing. What gives The Naked and the Dead distinction is its stiffening of sharp war reportage with the prophetic philosophy that, by coincidence, Orwell presented in Nineteen Eighty-Four (the books came out almost simultaneously in Britain): the future lies with power, and the Second World War is a rehearsal of the future nevertheless, the capacity for free choice may descend upon men when they least look for it (as with the swarm of bees that sends the soldiers packing). But for precisely what is he famous and immortal? The Naked and the Dead is still the best of the war novels, Evelyn Waughs Sword of Honour failing even to sidle into its class (too patrician, too Catholic, too unbloody and unfecal). ![]() NORMAN MAILER’S F AME is large and his immortality assured.
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