La Petite Bourgeoise
A c. 1951 short story unpublished in Mailer's lifetime, recovered from the Ransom Center and first printed in The Mailer Review in 2014. A party comedy in which the narrator Michael circles a provocative divorcée, Rosalie, and is finally outmaneuvered — used to make her escort jealous.
“La Petite Bourgeoise.” The Mailer Review 8.1 (2014), 10–16.
A party comedy: the narrator Michael circles Rosalie, a provocative divorcée guarded by the fastidious Thomas, and is finally outmaneuvered — recruited only to make her escort jealous. One of a group of stories Mailer wrote around 1951, in the period after Barbary Shore, and left unpublished in his lifetime; it first appeared in The Mailer Review in 2014.
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- The Blood of the Blunt | The Thalian Adventure | Dr. Bulganoff and the Solitary Teste
- The Mailer Review
Editorial notes
- Source typescript: Harry Ransom Center, Norman Mailer Papers, Box 22 — the c. 1951 “Short Stories, post–Barbary Shore, probably” gathering.
- Lennon Works and Days register entry 14.1 (confirmed during the 2013–2016 ingest; the earlier NMSF-linkage note that it carried no Lennon number is superseded).
- Cross-vault: Norman Mailer’s Short Fiction treats the piece as short fiction (
nmsf-id: la-petite-bourgeoise).