Dr. Bulganoff and the Solitary Teste

Authors

  • Norman Mailer Author

Keywords:

unpublished short story, Brooklyn childhood, mother-son relationship, medical examination, comic fiction, Harry Ransom Center

Abstract

“Dr. Bulganoff and the Solitary Teste,” 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

2017-10-26

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2017)

Section

Works by Norman Mailer

How to Cite

Mailer, Norman. “Dr. Bulganoff and the Solitary Teste”. The Mailer Review, vol. 11, no. 1, Oct. 2017, pp. 8–22, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/608.