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Recounting the early life of arguably the most evil person who ever lived, Norman Mailer's account of Adolf Hitler's upbringing is appropriately narrated by someone who was there at his conce

Un pequeño paso para un hombre... Celebrando el mayor triunfo de la exploración espacial Para conmemorar el 40 aniversario del histórico alunizaje del Apolo 11, TASCHEN ha emparejado este texto capital de Norman Mailer con espectaculares fotografías, documentación y apuntes de los archivos de la NASA, para crear un homenaje único a la misión científica que ha definido nuestra era. Ha sido llamado el acontecimiento histórico puntual más importante del siglo XX: el 20 de julio de 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin y Michael Collins cumplieron con el llamamiento de John F. Kennedy de un alunizaje tripulado para fines de los años 1960. Una década de pruebas y entrenamiento, un equipo de 400.000 ingenieros y científicos, un presupuesto de 24.000 millones de dólares y el cohete más potente jamás lanzado, todo combinado en un evento sin precedentes contemplado por millones de personas alrededor del mundo. Y nadie captó los hombres, los ánimos y la maquinaria como Norman Mailer. Uno de los mayores escritores del siglo XX, Norman Mailer fue contratado por la revista LIFE en 1969 para cubrir el lanzamiento lunar. Su artículo en tres partes era la pieza más larga de no ficción que nunca hubiera publicado la revista. Luego el autor amplió y optimizó su reportaje al profundizar sus reflexiones en el libro Un fuego en la luna, brillantemente redactado y extractado aquí por primera vez. Inclinado por igual a examinar la ciencia del viaje espacial y la psicología de los hombres involucrados en ella -desde el ingeniero del cohete Saturno V Wernher von Braun al vital equipo de apoyo de la NASA y los tres astronautas-, Mailer brinda interioridades provocadoras y mordaces de este hito que ha hecho época. Edición limitada y numerada de 1957 ejemplares. Cada ejemplar incluye una fotografía enmarcada en polimetilmetacrilato, numerada, lista para colgar y con calidad de archivo, reproducida utilizando la revolucionaria técnica de impresión Skia y firmada por Buzz Aldrin./p&g

En los setenta nace el arte callejero en Nueva York; el escritor Norman Mailer se asocia con el fotógrafo Jon Naar y el resultado es este poderoso documento, La fe del grafiti. Mailer proyecta su mirada provocativa sobre el significado de esta expresión de la cultura contemporánea; Naar selecciona, captura, da sentido a la obra de los «escritores de grafiti». Juntos levantan esta acta de registro para la historia de un arte que no ha de durar. Una reflexión, en palabras e imágenes, sobre el significado de la identidad, la propiedad y el arte urbano.

El 20 de julio de 1969 la ciencia ficción se hizo realidad. Reviva el trascendental alunizaje del Apolo 11 en este innovador libro. Extractos de la novela de Norman Mailer Of a Fire on the Moon se un

To Foreman, Ali now said, 'You have heard of me since you were young. You've been following me since you were a little boy. Now, you must meet me, your master!' '

Si nuestro siglo ha aportado una palabra a la potencia de la lengua, esa es ego». En 1967 el campeón del mundo de los pesos pesados, Muhammad Ali, se negó a tomar parte en la guerra de Vietnam, lo que le costó la retirada del título y, paradójicamente, el ingreso en la categoría de los grandes mitos del siglo XX, símbolo de lucha más allá de sus hazañas deportivas. Cuando en 1971 regresó al ring para recuperar su título frente a Joe Frazier, en el llamado Combate del Siglo, muchos creían que era un boxeador acabado y que el orgullo lo cegaba... Solo uno de los grandes cronistas de su tiempo, Norman Mailer, podía ofrecer un texto que va más allá de la narración deportiva y la semblanza biográfica para adentrarse en la reflexión sobre el símbolo social, el ascenso y caída del mito, el hombre detrás de la leyenda.

An unexpected collection from Norman Mailera book of his selected poems and more than one hundred of his drawings, most of them never before published. Modest Gifts is full of what the author calls casual pleasures witty, naughty, and surprisingly tender verse and art. Lust, seduction, betrayal, jealousy, and even the banality of cocktail party chatter are depicted with humor, affection, and, above all, honesty. Here is an aspect of Norman Mailer unknown to many: lighthearted, prankish, whimsical, and often gentle, playfully sketching the intimate urban world that surrounds us. Modest, funny, and true, each poem and drawing shows a new side of one of the greatest writers of our time.

Fifitieth Anniversary Edition With a new introduction by Norman Mailer * 'The best war novel to come out of the United States.' The Times * Norman Mailer's first novel. The book that catapulted him to instant fame. * A modern classic, on every American Literature student's reading list. * Based on Mailer's own experience of military service in the Philippines during World War Two, The Naked and the Dead is a graphically truthful and shattering portrayal of ordinary men in battle. First published in 1949, as America was still basking in the glories of the Allied victory, it altered forever the popular perception of warfare.

A metaphysical thriller set in the world of the CIA between Berlin in the 1950s and the assassination of JFK in 1963. In it, Norman Mailer created a tough, dangerous world that takes on its own unique set of spiritual values, challenging many of the preconceptions of 20th-century American history.

A towering figure in American literature, Norman Mailer has in recent years reached a new level of accessibility and power. His last novel, The Castle in the Forest, revealed fascinating ideas about faith and the nature of good and evil. Now Mailer offers his concept of the nature of God. His conversations with his friend and literary executor, Michael Lennon, show this writer at his most direct, provocative, and challenging. "I think," writes Mailer, "that piety is oppressive. It takes all the air out of thought." In moving, amusing, probing, and uncommon dialogues conducted over three years but whose topics he has considered for decades, Mailer establishes his own system of belief, one that rejects both organized religion and atheism. He presents instead a view of our world as one created by an artistic God who often succeeds but can also fail in the face of determined opposition by contrary powers in the universe, with whom war is waged for the souls of humans. In turn, we have been given freedom-indeed responsibility-to choose our own paths. Mailer trusts that our individual behavior-always a complex mix of good and evil-will be rewarded or punished with a reincarnation that fits the sum of our lives. Mailer weighs the possibilities of "intelligent design" at the same time avowing that sensual pleasures were bestowed on us by God; he finds fault with the Ten Commandments-because adultery, he avers, may be a lesser evil than others suffered in a bad marriage-and he holds that technology was the Devil's most brilliant creation. In short, Mailer is original and unpredictablein this inspiring verbal journey, a unique vision of the world in which "God needs us as much as we need God." From The Naked and the Dead to The Executioner's Song and beyond, Mailer's major works have engaged such themes as war, politics, culture, and sex. Now, in this small yet important book, Mailer, in a modest, well-spoken style, gives us fresh ways to think about the largest subject of them all.

La historia de una de las más importantes y controvertidas figuras de la historia de la humanidad. Un personaje fascinante, de carne y hueso, abrumado por la misión que le ha sido encomendada, dotado de deseos y de sentido del humor, y lleno de dudas. Mailer propone una aproximación a uno de los grandes mitos sagrados de la humanidad.

A bold and darkly funny novel about the family and early life of Adolf Hitler.

Estos Fragmentos reúnen lo mejor de la producción periodística y crítica de este eterno enfant terrible de las letras norteamericanas que es Norman Mailer

Because democracy is noble, it is always endangered. Nobility, indeed, is always in danger. Democracy is perishable. I think the natural government for most people, given the uglier depths of human nature, is fascism. Fascism is more of a natural state than democracy. To assume blithely that we can export democracy into any country we choose can serve paradoxically to encourage more fascism at home and abroad. from Why Are We at War?Why Are We at War? is an explosive argument about George W. Bush and his quest for empire. Norman Mailer, one of the greatest authors of our time, lays bare the White Houses position on why war in Iraq is necessary and justified. By scrutinizing the administrations words and actions leading up to the current crisis, Mailer carefully builds his case that Bush is pursuing war not in the name of security or anti-terrorism or human rights but in an undeclared yet fully realized ambition of global empire.Mailer unleashes his trademark moral rigor on an administration he believes is recklessly endangering our very notion of freedom and democracy. For more than fifty years, in classic works of both fiction and nonfiction, Mailer has persistently exposed the folly of the powerful and the mighty. Beginning with his debut masterpiece, The Naked and the Dead, Mailer has repeatedly told the truth about war and why men fight. Why Are We at War? returns Mailer to the subject he knows better than any other writer in America today: the gravity of the battlefield and the grand hubris of the politicians who send soldiers there to die.