在大量的非虚构小说中,梅勒表达了他对于美国当代历史的深切关注和强烈的参与意识。然而他所表征出来的历史却丧失了其传统意义上的唯一性和客观真实性,取而代之的是具有虚构化特点、新历史主义批评家所谓的“新”历史或者“文本化”的历史。他打破了历史与文学的界限,采用了一些小说创作的叙事策略。比较突出的是超文本和元小说叙事技巧的使用。 In a large number of non-fiction novels, Mailer expresses his deep concern about the contemporary history of the United States and its strong sense of participation. However, the history he has expounded has lost its uniqueness and objective authenticity in the traditional sense, and replaced it with the history of the so-called “new” or “textualized” features of fictionalization and criticism by the neo-historicists. He broke the boundaries between history and literature and adopted some narrative strategies in his novels. More prominent is the use of hypertext and metafiction narrative techniques.