![]() This time, she dips into The Odyssey for the legend of Circe, a nymph who turns Odysseus’ crew of men into pigs. The writer returns to Homer, the wellspring that led her to an Orange Prize for The Song of Achilles (2012). Imagine all the prayers.” So says Circe, a sly, petulant, and finally commanding voice that narrates the entirety of Miller’s dazzling second novel. ![]() Mailer has finally caught a current, plotted a drift, however, and this is an important and passionate pilgrimage.Ī retelling of ancient Greek lore gives exhilarating voice to a witch. ![]() Mailer's feints and bell-donging around his fellow "Notables" is a late night popcorn joy, and there is much that is stylish and shrewd. Predictably liberal squares do not share in the benison. Then a sense of a dynamic American-ness sets Mailer to an appreciation of the diverse: from a Nazi to a Worthy (judicial) Opponent from black militants to M.P.'s to the hippies, a masked ball going to battle (a breathtaking view). a sharp searing love for his country," alas "now a beauty with a leprous skin." The peace march on the Pentagon of last October (in the course of which Mailer politely skirted a guard and spent a long night in a Virginia prison) opened up a chasm of confusion, contradiction and portent. Through the dualistic strains which Mailer has worried before-old and oleo America-comes Mailer's good feel of "an undiscovered patriotism. Once history inhabits a crazy house, egotism may be the last tool left to history" and Mailer the Beast rampant, narrow-eyed Mailer the Novelist, mesmerized Mailer the Participant, tip-top Mailer the Protagonist Mailer the floating hair Patriot, and just pliant innerman Norm, have together pulled off this remarkable journal, even overtaking Mailer the Image to burst into new playing fields of awareness.
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