《裸者与死者》是美国当代文坛四杰之一———诺曼.梅勒的处女作,也被普遍认为是他的代表作。小说以战争为背景,通过主要人物卡明斯将军、克洛夫特上士等人的权力观,对权力的追求和滥用的描写,揭示了美军内部专制、集权的官僚体系和蔑视人权践踏人格、摧残人性的野蛮行为,并以此揭露美国的强权政治。对当时的社会和现在的世界局势具有警世与预言作用。 Nude and the Dead are one of the four leading contemporary literary stars in the United States --- Norman Mailer’s debut work, which is also widely regarded as his masterpiece. The novel takes the war as the background. Through the viewpoints of the main characters such as General Cummings, Sergeant Kraft and others, the pursuit of power and the description of abuse reveal the autocratic and centralized bureaucracy within the U.S. military and the human rights abuses , Destroying human brutality and revealing the power politics in the United States. It has a precarious and predictive role in the current social and current world situation.