美国著名作家诺曼·梅勒的《裸者与死者》被认为是二战后出现的战争文学中“写得最早,也最好”(兰·乌斯比语)的小说。小说尽管描写的是一支美军奉命去收复被日军占领的南太平洋上阿诺波佩岛,但是梅勒并没有花费很多的笔墨去渲染紧张而又危险的战争场面,而是结合自己二战期间的兵役经历,运用存在主义思想通过对士兵们的作战行动和军营生活等的描述揭示了社会生活对美国人的威胁和压迫。 The famous “naked man and dead” by the famous American writer Norman Mailer is regarded as the “earliest written and best” novel in the war literature that emerged after World War II. Although the novel depicts a U.S. military ordered to regain the Japanese occupation of the South Pacific island of Arnopepei, but Mailer did not spend a lot of ink to render intense and dangerous scenes of the war, but with his World War II The experience of military service and the use of existentialist ideas reveal the threat and oppression of the social life to the Americans by describing the soldiers’ operations and military camps.