La Petite Bourgeoise

Authors

  • Norman Mailer Author

Keywords:

postwar American fiction, bourgeois culture, sexuality and disillusionment, gender performance, marriage and intimacy, suburban conformity, early Mailer

Abstract

“La Petite Bourgeoise,” a short story by Norman Mailer, was never published. It is not known with certainty when Mailer wrote the story, but its date of composition is believed to be circa 1951. A transcription of the story follows the images. The Norman Mailer estate has graciously given permission to reprint the story. Images are courtesy of the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.

—Phillip Sipiora

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Published

2026-10-10

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 1 (2014): Future Bound

Section

Works by Norman Mailer