The Naked and the Dead | Literary Precedents
Mailer has acknowledged that much of his characterization in The Naked and the Dead derives from Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos. Dos Passos's trilogy USA (1930-1936; see separate entry) has newsreel sections and capsule biographies of historical figures that are interleaved with the lives of fictional characters in America from the turn of the century to the Depression. Camera Eye sections provide the narrator's very personal subjective impressions of the era and of his consciousness within it. The multiple frames through which a culture is viewed in USA clearly set a...
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