The Fight (book) ego trips and the unattractive dimensions of his narcissism." Mitrosilis comments that "Mailer observes the power and frailty of his own persona just as he does with the fighters and their cornermen… hiding nothing." To him it appears like "a near impossible task to lie on the couch and sit in the chair, the psychologist and the patient." The Fight (book) The Fight is a 1975 non-fiction book by Norman Mailer about the boxing title fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman at Kinshasa in Zaire in 1974, known as the "Rumble in the Jungle". The author is both the
Bungle in the Jungle known as "The Chateau D'isaster Tapes". Not released at the time, however, one or two of the songs managed to get recorded in the albums "A Passion Play" and "War Child." At that time Anderson was working on a different album about the human condition, with analogies from the animal kingdom. "Bungle in the Jungle" was finished just in time to be put onto "War Child" in 1974. The song was written and composed to become part of the soundtrack for a film which was never actually produced. The film screenplay script was a black comedy about a dead teenage