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Ancient Evenings
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Author(s)	Norman Mailer
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Historical novel
Publisher	Little, Brown & Company
Publication date	1983
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	709 pp
ISBN	ISBN 0-316-54410-8
OCLC Number	9019063
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 19
LC Classification	PS3525.A4152 A79 1983

Ancient Evenings is a novel by American author Norman Mailer. It deals with the lives of two protagonists, one young, one old, in a very alien Ancient Egypt marked by journeys by the dead, reincarnation, and violent and hyper-sexual gods and mortals in a complex combination of historical fiction, allegory, poetic flight, confession and spiritual meditation.

The novel had an extremely mixed critical reception marked by a preponderance of negative reviews.

William S. Burroughs acknowledged "Norman Mailer and his Ancient Evenings, for inspiration" in his 1987 novel The Western Lands.^[1]

The novel has gained popularity in Turkey due to its resemblance to the novel My Name is Red by the Nobel Prize winner Turkish author Orhan Pamuk. Pamuk was accused of plagiarizing many parts of the novel.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ Burroughs, William S. The Western Lands (1987), acknowledgements section.

External links

Harold Bloom reviews Ancient Evenings for the New York Review of Books

v t e Works by Norman Mailer

Fiction	The Naked and the Dead Barbary Shore The Deer Park An American Dream The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer Why Are We in Vietnam? A Transit to Narcissus Of Women and Their Elegance Ancient Evenings Tough Guys Don't Dance Harlot's Ghost The Gospel According to the Son The Castle in the Forest

Non-fiction	"The White Negro" Advertisements for Myself The Presidential Papers Cannibals and Christians The Bullfight The Armies of the Night The Idol and the Octopus Miami and the Siege of Chicago Of a Fire on the Moon King of the Hill The Prisoner of Sex Existential Errands St. George and The Godfather The Faith of Graffiti Genius and Lust Of a Small and Modest Malignancy, Wicked and Bristling with Dots Pieces and Pontifications The Spooky Art Why Are We At War?

Biography	Marilyn: A Biography The Fight The Executioner's Song Oswald's Tale Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man

Film	Beyond the Law Wild 90 Maidstone Tough Guys Don't Dance

Other	The Deer Park (play) Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters) (poetry) Some Honorable Men (anthology) The Time of Our Time (anthology) Modest Gifts (poems and drawings) The Big Empty (dialogues) On God (conversation)

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