【枪炮与玫瑰 ：梅勒与海明威的共有主题】

Masculinity toughness fantasy women violence war boxing guns these are the themes that unite two of the 20th Century’s greatest writers ——Norman Mailer and Ernest Hemingway The latest issue of The Mailer Review, Vol. 4, No. 1, a publication of the University of South Florida and the Norman Mailer Society, puts them on the same bill to provide lovers of Hemingway and Mailer a rich, varied and detailed exploration of the two authors’ connections. Mailer was a Young Turk to Hemingway’s literary lion at the point when their paths first crossed. Though a generation apart, they each achieved fame at roughly the same age. The two celebrated writers never spoke face to face, but observed each other from a curious distance, catching a glimpse of each other, it is believed, only once at a party as Mailer’s star was rising. The place their lives intersected was in earning the distinction of changing the face of literature – in their respective halves of the century.