硬漢不跳舞

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A dark, brilliant novel of astonishing pitch, set in Provincetown, a “spit of shrub and dune” captured here in the rawness and melancholy of the off-season, Tough Guys Don’t Dance is the story of Tim Madden, an unsuccessful writer addicted to bourbon, cigarettes, and blonde, careless women with money. On the twenty-fourth morning after the decampment of his wife, Patty Lareine, he awakens with a hangover, considerable sexual excitement, and, on his upper arm, a blue tattoo bearing a name from the past. Of the night before, he remembers practically nothing. What he soon learns is that the front passenger seat of his Porsche is soaked with blood and that in a secluded corner of his marijuana stash in a nearby woods rests a blonde head, severed at the throat.
Is Madden therefore a murderer? He has no way of knowing. As in many novels of crime, the narrative centers on violence—physical, sexual, and emotional—but these elements move in their orbits through a rich constellation of character as Madden tries to reconstruct the missing hours of a terrible evening. In the course of this in-quiry a bizarre and vividly etched gallery of characters reappears to him as in a dream—ex-prizefighters, sexual junkies, mediums, former cons, a police chief, a world-weary former girl friend, and Mad-den’s father, old now but still a Herculean figure, a practitioner of the sternest backroom ethics.
Tough Guys Don’t Dance represents Mailer at the peak of his powers with a stunningly conceived novel that soon transcends its origins as a mystery to become a relentless search into the recesses and buried virtues of the modern American male. Rarely, as many readers will discern, have the paradoxes of machismo and homosexuality been so well explored.
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諾曼·梅勒（1923—），美國(guó)猶太裔作家，生于新澤西州朗布蘭奇，童年在紐約布魯克林區(qū)度過(guò)。1943年畢業(yè)于哈佛大學(xué)，曾在軍隊(duì)服役兩年，戰(zhàn)后從事寫作。梅勒是個(gè)在政治上十分活躍的小說(shuō)家，對(duì)馬克思主義和存在主義同樣感興趣。他的作品往往直接反映美國(guó)的社會(huì)問(wèn)題和政治問(wèn)題，并獲得普利策小說(shuō)獎(jiǎng)，全國(guó)圖書獎(jiǎng)和全國(guó)藝術(shù)俱樂(lè)部文學(xué)金質(zhì)獎(jiǎng)?wù)碌榷囗?xiàng)獎(jiǎng)。發(fā)表于1945年的長(zhǎng)篇小說(shuō)《裸者與死者》是梅勒的成名作，因深刻地揭示了美國(guó)軍隊(duì)中官兵之間的對(duì)立關(guān)系，被公認(rèn)為描寫第二次世界大戰(zhàn)的最佳小說(shuō)之一。《巴巴里海濱》（1951）則象征性地描寫了美國(guó)左派政治力量和右派政治勢(shì)力的沖突。《鹿苑》（1955）以同樣的手法描繪了好萊塢電影界的苦悶和窒息。10年后，發(fā)表的長(zhǎng)篇小說(shuō)《一場(chǎng)美國(guó)夢(mèng)》（1965）逼真地描寫了美國(guó)社會(huì)中肆無(wú)忌憚的暴力、兇殺和強(qiáng)奸事件，從而揭示了美國(guó)的混亂和美國(guó)夢(mèng)的破滅。《我們?yōu)槭裁丛谠侥稀罚?967）都是一部宣揚(yáng)存在主義的作品。《古代的傍晚》（1983）是梅勒的一部近作，主要以古代埃及為背景。自1959年以來(lái)，梅勒在創(chuàng)作上發(fā)生了重大轉(zhuǎn)折，連續(xù)發(fā)表了多部“新新聞報(bào)導(dǎo)”作品，或稱為“非虛構(gòu)小說(shuō)，主要有長(zhǎng)篇論文《白種黑人》（1959），散文集《總統(tǒng)文件》（1963）傳記《瑪麗琳》（1973）?！兑归g的大軍》（196s）等詳盡地記敘了新左派向五角大樓進(jìn)軍的過(guò)程。而作為“生活實(shí)錄小說(shuō)刃的《劊子手之歌》（1979），因深入地探討了一名死囚犯罪的心理原因和社會(huì)原因，被譽(yù)為非虛構(gòu)小說(shuō)的代表作。

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