Michael David Herr (April 13, 1940 – June 23, 2016) was an American writer and war correspondent, known as the author of Dispatches (1977), a memoir. Michael Herr. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to navigation Jump to search. Create a book Download as PDF Printable version. Download EBooks free in PDF. On our site we have the best collection of books, descriptions, reviews of the books and their authors. Related books PDF. Description of the book 'Dispatches': Michael Herr experienced Vietnam firsthand--not as a soldier but as a war correspondent for Esquire magazine. DISPATCHES is his personal journal.
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| Author | Michael Herr |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Journalism |
| Publisher | Knopf |
Publication date | 1977 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 272 pp |
| ISBN | 0-679-73525-9 |
| OCLC | 22956787 |
| 959.704/38 20 | |
| LC Class | DS559.5 .H47 1991 |
Dispatches is a New Journalism book by Michael Herr that describes the author's experiences in Vietnam as a war correspondent for Esquire magazine. First published in 1977, Dispatches was one of the first pieces of American literature that portrayed the experiences of soldiers in the Vietnam War for American readers.
Featured in the book are fellow war correspondents Sean Flynn, Dana Stone, and Dale Dye, and photojournalist Tim Page.
Dispatches was reprinted in 2009 by Everyman's Library as a contemporary classic.
Reception[edit]
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However after publishing Dispatches, Herr disclosed that parts of the book were invented, and that it would be better for it not to be regarded as journalism. In a 1990 interview with Los Angeles Times, he admitted that the characters Day Tripper and Mayhew in the book are 'totally fictional characters', and went on to say:
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- 'A lot of Dispatches is fictional. I've said this a lot of times. I have told people over the years that there are fictional aspects to Dispatches, and they look betrayed. They look heartbroken, as if it isn't true anymore. I never thought of Dispatches as journalism. In France they published it as a novel.. I always carried a notebook. I had this idea—I remember endlessly writing down dialogues. It was all I was really there to do. Very few lines were literally invented. A lot of lines are put into mouths of composite characters. Sometimes I tell a story as if I was present when I wasn't, (which wasn't difficult)—I was so immersed in that talk, so full of it and so steeped in it. A lot of the journalistic stuff I got wrong.'[2]
Similarly, in a separate interview with Eric James Schroeder, he said:
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- 'I don’t think it's any secret that there is talk in the book that's invented. But it's invented out of that voice that I heard so often and that made such penetration into my head.. I don’t really want to go into that no-man’s-land about what really happened and what didn’t happen and where you draw the line. Everything in Dispatches happened for me, even if it didn’t necessarily happen to me.'[3]
In screenplays[edit]
Several of the fictional (composite character) soldiers mentioned in the book were used as the basis for characters in the movies Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket.
References[edit]
- ^'The 100 greatest non-fiction books'. London: www.guardian.co.uk. 14 June 2011.
- ^Ciotti, Paul. 'MICHAEL HERR : A Man of Few Words : What Is a Great American Writer Doing Holed Up in London, and Why Has He Been So Quiet All These Years?', Los Angeles Times, April 15, 1990.http://articles.latimes.com/1990-04-15/magazine/tm-2121_1_michael-herr/4. Retrieved on 25 February 2018.
- ^Schroeder, Eric James. Praeger: 1992. Vietnam, we've all been there: interviews with American writers, p. 46.