Norman Mailer The Deer Park-鹿苑

作者：Norman Mailer

书名：The Deer Park《鹿苑》

中文书评：《鹿苑》是诺曼· 梅勒的第三部小说.它充满了对享乐纵欲主义的讽刺和批判.批评界对这部小说的评价毁誉掺半.至今为止很少学者从拉康的镜像理论视角评论《鹿苑》,尤其是在女主角埃琳娜的身份建构方面.拉康的镜像理论为埃琳娜的主体建构过程提供了有力的参照,揭露了其身份建构失败的原因.小说中的他者意象是影响埃琳娜心理成长和身份建构的重要因素,对埃琳娜的身份建构产生了不可忽视的重要影响.

英文简介：Amid the cactus wilds some two hudred miles from Hollywood lies a privileged oasis called Desert D'Or. It is a place for starlets and would-be starlets, directors, studio execs, and the well-groomed lowlifes who cater to them. And, as imagined by Norman Mailer in this blistering classic of 1950s Hollywood, Desert D'Or is a moral proving ground, where men and women discover what they really want--and how far the are willing to go to get it. 

"The Deer Park" is the story of two interlacing love affairs. Sergius O'Shaugnessy is a young ex-Air Force pilot whose good looks and air of indifference launch him into the orbit of the radiant actress Lulu Meyers. Charles Eitel is a brilliant director wounded by accusations of communism--and whose liaison with the volatile Elena Esposito may supply the coup de grace to his career. As Mailer traces their couplings and uncouplings, their uneasy flirtation with success and self-extinction, he creates a legendary portrait of America's machinery of desire.