An American Dream

Japanese: アメリカの夢 - あめりかのゆめ(英語表記)An American Dream
An American Dream

A novel by American author Mailer, published in 1964 (revised in 1965). Using the form of a popular crime novel, it depicts the struggles of an intellectual attempting to liberate himself from the American system, and breaks new ground in its style, which goes beyond external realism and conveys the dynamism of fundamental life force. Rojak, a former congressman traumatized by his war experiences, impulsively strangles his haughty wife Deborah, who refuses to have sex with him. After evading police questioning and the sinister threats of Deborah's father, a political mastermind, he awakens to his primitive inner self through pure love with Cherry, a singer he meets in the New York underworld, and after Cherry's death, he leaves the corrupt civilized world and travels to the jungles of Central America.

[Tobita Shigeo]

[Reference] | Mailer

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

アメリカの作家、メイラーの小説。1964年刊(1965年改作)。通俗的な犯罪小説の形式を借りて、アメリカの体制的秩序からの自己解放を試みる知識人の葛藤(かっとう)を描いた作品であり、外面的な写実を超えて、根源的な生命力の躍動を伝える文体においても新生面を開いた。戦争体験で心に傷をもつ前国会議員ロージャックは、彼との性生活を拒否した高慢な妻デボラを衝動的に絞め殺し、警察の尋問や、政界の大黒幕であるデボラの父親による陰険な脅迫をすり抜けたあと、ニューヨークの暗黒街で知った歌手チェリーとの純粋な愛によって原始的な内なる我に目覚め、チェリーの死後、腐敗した文明世界を去って中央アメリカの密林へ赴く。

[飛田茂雄]

[参照項目] | メイラー

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