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我一直觉得我与诺曼·梅勒有特别缘分。我们属同一年代。1947年我初到米苏里大学读新闻研究院不久,就在图书馆看到他第一本著作《裸者与死者》的陈列,惊异他这么年轻就扬文名。十年后我曾偕友在纽约西边他的公寓中与他相谈。多年来我从不中断注意他在文化界的活动。今年他达到七十五高龄,兰登书屋为了庆祝《裸者与死者》出版五十周年,特地为他出了一部厚达1200余页的一生著作选集,取名《我们时代的
I always think I have a special fate with Norman Mailer. We belong to the same age. Shortly after I first went to the Institute of Information Research at the University of Missouri in 1947, I saw his first book, “The Naked and the Dead,” in the library. He was amazed at how young he was. Ten years later I talked with him to his apartment in the west of New York. Over the years I have never stopped paying attention to his activities in the cultural world. This year he reached seventy-five years of age. In order to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Naked and the Dead, Random House specially selected a collection of more than 1,200 pages of his life’s work entitled "