The Man Who Studied Yoga (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Norman Mailer
- First Published: 1959
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The 1950's
- Setting: New York City
- Principal Characters: Sam Slovoda, Eleanor, Alan Sperber
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Authors or writers, New York City, Comedy, Yoga, Pornography, Comedians
- Locales: New York, NY
The Story
Sam Slovoda writes for comic magazines and feels overworked and underappreciated. He dreams of writing a great novel but cannot seem to organize his thoughts. Every time he begins to write fiction, he is overcome with the feeling that what he wants to say is too complex and his way of saying it is not focused enough.
A frustrated, middle-aged man, Sam also fancies himself a great lover and feels hampered in his marriage. He yearns for affairs with other women but does not act on his desires, feeling stymied by his wife, Eleanor, who does not appreciate how much...
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