Stephen Rojack, el último Hipster

Abstract

The aim of this article is to study Stephen Rojack, the main character of An American Dream (1964) inasmuch as the one that most successfully approaches the "hipster' upon whom Mailer had written "The White Negro" (1957). The biographical parallelism between the author and his character, the shortlived experience of the Kennedy era, Mailer's disappointment at what the sixties were coming to, etc., tell Rojack apart from the other Maileresque characters —so far does he achieve his role as metaphysical rebel.