Ancient Evenings

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ANCIENT EVENINGS /;, NORMAN MAILER

'Ancient Evenings should be for literature in the 1980's what Gravity's Rainhorvwas in the 1970's, the epicenter of the major disturbance.' THOMAS EDWARDS
'Ancient Evenings is about reincarnation. Menenhetet, a courtier in the twentieth dynasty kingdom of Rameses and Nefititi, is reborn three times: charioteer, general, High priest, general again. In seven books, Mailer explores the seven stages or components of the Egyptian soul - Name, Power, Angel, Heart, Double, Shadow and Remains - as they range across vast tracts of time and yet are contained within one person. The book is violent, sexual and scatological, demands concentration of attention, and is one of the most profound modern statements about the nature and destiny of mankind. Wwh. Ancient Evenings, Mailer has produced a fiction of unquestionable power and importance.' TIMES EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT
'There is spiritual power in Mailer's fantasy and there is a relevance to current... Tovább

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ANCIENT EVENINGS /;, NORMAN MAILER

'Ancient Evenings should be for literature in the 1980's what Gravity's Rainhorvwas in the 1970's, the epicenter of the major disturbance.' THOMAS EDWARDS
'Ancient Evenings is about reincarnation. Menenhetet, a courtier in the twentieth dynasty kingdom of Rameses and Nefititi, is reborn three times: charioteer, general, High priest, general again. In seven books, Mailer explores the seven stages or components of the Egyptian soul - Name, Power, Angel, Heart, Double, Shadow and Remains - as they range across vast tracts of time and yet are contained within one person. The book is violent, sexual and scatological, demands concentration of attention, and is one of the most profound modern statements about the nature and destiny of mankind. Wwh. Ancient Evenings, Mailer has produced a fiction of unquestionable power and importance.' TIMES EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT
'There is spiritual power in Mailer's fantasy and there is a relevance to current reality in America that actually surpasses that ofMailer's largest previous achievement. The Executioner's Song Ancient Evenings is an extravagant invention, another warning that Mailer is at home on'v, Emerson's stairway of surprise.' .iV

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'Such is Mailer's skill that the reader accepts not only the reincarndftions but also the ability of certain characters to read each other's minds. The inextricable connection between the Egyptians, nature and their strange gods is brilliantly depicted This great work concludes with an awe-inspiring account of a journey through the Land of the Dead. Mailer, a bold gambler, wins all the chips with this one.' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
'S-wihly, Ancient Evenings pulls its reader inside a consciousness different from any hitherto met in fiction. A soul or body entombed is struggling to burst free, desperate not alone for light and air but for prayer and story -promised comforters that have been treacherously withheld or stolen. All is strange, dark, intense, mysteriously coherent.' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Vissza