Surmounted The Perplexity, And Discerned Wars

Come through all kinds of hardships of colonial period, the baptism of American Revolution, went through the Civil War, twice World Wars, Korean War and Vietnam War, the young American Literature became close attached to war. In the book "Contemporary American Literature 1945-1972", Professor Ihab Hassan said that wars enabled many young people become writers, they had just taken off the service uniform, with a great deal of experience, which was painful and enough to make the person produces the imagination of creating novels. Wars brought up numbers of outstanding novelists and excellent war novels. In numerous American war novels, Norman Mailer's "the Naked and the Dead" became a milestone in American war novel history. As an American World War II novel, it got out from the spirit of "lost generation" limit, making the angle of view changing direction the whole American society from personal, and predicted the whole aberration of American society with the symbolizing. It created and developed a new style on the war novel theme, became the connecting link between the preceding and the following in American war novel history.Norman Mailer's "The Naked and the Dead" became very successful as soon as it was published. It was called the best war novel after World War II. Sinclair Lewis once praised Mailer as "the greatest writer to come out of his generation"."The Naked and the Dead" fabled a tropical island Anopopei on The Pacific in World War II, which was controlled by the Japanese. The American general Cummings received order to lead the troops to take back that island. This novel set two parallel clues: the conflict between the Sergeant Croft and...