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November 16, 1948. Mailer comments at length on The Naked And The Dead, his best-selling and critically lauded novel of World War II, just six months after the book's publication: "I must confess that I feel like Dalleson who makes a few blundering moves and the whole battle, the whole campaign, rolls away from under him. You know I wrote The Naked And The Dead in what amounted to isolation. I knew very few people at the time and I used to work every day with a certain kind of ingenuous simplicity which is going to be very difficult to recapture. Perhaps that is a large reason for the book's virtue. Since I was not in the world or with the world at that time, I was able to construct my own world in a book. Since then there have been so many faces and so much activity, the Wallace movement and all the absurdities of being a 90-day celebrity. I suppose I feel like a character in a Kafka novel." Some 250 content-rich words. Fine.
November 16, 1948. Mailer comments at length on The Naked And The Dead, his best-selling and critically lauded novel of World War II, just six months after the book's publication: "I must confess that I feel like Dalleson who makes a few blundering moves and the whole battle, the whole campaign, rolls away from under him. You know I wrote The Naked And The Dead in what amounted to isolation. I knew very few people at the time and I used to work every day with a certain kind of ingenuous simplicity which is going to be very difficult to recapture. Perhaps that is a large reason for the book's virtue. Since I was not in the world or with the world at that time, I was able to construct my own world in a book. Since then there have been so many faces and so much activity, the Wallace movement and all the absurdities of being a 90-day celebrity. I suppose I feel like a character in a Kafka novel." Some 250 content-rich words. Fine.