Reality Through Insanity——A Survey of the Neurotic Heroes in American Novels of the 1960s (Continued)  

作　　者：侯维瑞 

出　　处：《外国语》1989年第3期41-45,共5页Journal of Foreign Languages

摘　　要：Norman Mailer has made a profound analysisof the mad logic of the Vietnam war in his Armiesof the Night, a novel of new journalism whichconcludes the schizophrenic environment of Ameri-can society is at the root of this lunatic war: "He (Norman Mailer) came at last to the saddest conclusion ... that the centre of America might be insane. The country had been living with a controlled, even fiercely controlled, schizophrenia which had been deepening with the years. Perhaps the point had now been passed." (AN. 188)Traditional Christianity as a unifying force inlife has been able for many years to keep somekind of sanity. But it may now be on the decline.

关 键 词：Reality Through Insanity A Survey of the Neurotic Heroes in American Novels of the 1960s Continued 

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