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The Castle in the Forest: A Novel
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780394536491
ISBN: 0394536495
Label: Random House
Manufacturer: Random House
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 496
Publication Date: January 23, 2007
Publisher: Random House
Release Date: January 23, 2007
Studio: Random House
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Editorial Review:
No career in modern American letters is at once so brilliant, varied, and controversial as that of Norman Mailer. In a span of more than six decades, Mailer has searched into subjects ranging from World War II to Ancient Egypt, from the march on the Pentagon to Marilyn Monroe, from Henry Miller and Mohammad Ali to Jesus Christ. Now, in The Castle in the Forest, his first major work of fiction in more than a decade, Mailer offers what may be his consummate literary endeavor: He has set out to explore the evil of Adolf Hitler. The narrator, a mysterious SS man who is later revealed to be an exceptional presence, gives us young Adolf from birth, as well as Hitler’s father and mother, his sisters and brothers, and the intimate details of his childhood and adolescence.A tapestry of unforgettable characters, The Castle in the Forest delivers its playful twists and surprises with astonishing insight into the nature of the struggle between good and evil that exists in us all. At its core is a hypothesis that propels this novel and makes it a work of stunning originality. Now, on the eve of his eighty-fourth birthday, Norman Mailer may well be saying more than he ever has before.
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Rating:  - Insight on Good and Evil
The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer
Astonishing Insight on the Nature Good and Evil
This is a wonderful book to treasure and reflect upon. The precision of the writing makes it easy to read while the intensity of the psychological analysis gives the reader a lot to ponder.
This book is a story of the development, creation and cultivation of pure evil. It is written from the perspective of a progenitor of evil. The narrator created evil on earth in a ... Read More
Rating: - Insight on Good and Evil
The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer
Astonishing Insight on the Nature Good and Evil
This is a wonderful book to treasure and reflect upon. The precision of the writing makes it easy to read while the intensity of the psychological analysis gives the reader a lot to ponder.
This book is a story of the development, creation and cultivation of pure evil. It is written from the perspective of a progenitor of evil. The narrator created evil on earth in a ... Read More
Rating: - Insight on Good and Evil
The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer
Astonishing Insight on the Nature Good and Evil
This is a wonderful book to treasure and reflect upon. The precision of the writing makes it easy to read while the intensity of the psychological analysis gives the reader a lot to ponder.
This book is a story of the development, creation and cultivation of pure evil. It is written from the perspective of a progenitor of evil. The narrator created evil on earth in a ... Read More
Rating: - Diary of a Madman
In this ambitious novel on the formative years of Adolf Hitler, author Norman Mailer delivers a tour-de-force by delving into the dysfunctional family and very bizarre habits that molded this dictator and murderer of millions.
Told through the burning gaze and biting commentary of Dieter, a devil who was given the task by the Maestro (Satan), the years of 1837-1903 are covered, with an emphasis on Adolf's father, Alois, a customs official whose home every night is truly the bed he places ... Read More
Rating:  - This Castle Has MANY Rooms!
By many rooms, I mean this novel is filled with shocking cruelty and gentleness, cruel abhorrence and love, sensuality and abominations, adultery and conviction. So many contradictions! To this reader, it is at once interesting and also unforgettably disgusting.
This book is unusual in that it is narrated by the devil himself. But then, who could be a better biographer than him for Hitler? This novel is difficult to endure in its stark portrayal of evil at its utmost. In spite of this, the ... Read More
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