Tim O'Brian

Tim O'Brian

Introduction

“The man I killed” is one of the stories that make up the cathartic book about the Vietnam War published, in 1990 with the suggestive title “The Things They Carried the men who fought”. Most likely, the accounts of O'Brien should put them in the wake of the tradition arising from the call “New Journalism” the late sixties of last century. That stream, whose pioneers and most prominent representatives are writers such as Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer and Truman Capote, based on an assumption: social reality-the U.S. at that time, if any, exceeds the imaginative writer. Hence the desire ...