The Castle In The Forest
Norman Mailer's larger-than-life persona and literary feats have made him one of the most visible and critically lauded authors of the modern era. In The Castle in the Forest, Mailer trains his finely honed talents on the 20th-century's great monster: Adolf Hitler. A devil serving in Satan's bureaucracy-the very one assigned to nurture the young Hitler's perverse inclinations-sets out on a daring task: The rank-and-file devil will risk the Evil One's wrath by setting to paper an account of Hitler's birth and early childhood. Through the devil's eyes, Hitler as a boy displays impulses toward the murder campaign he will later orchestrate and proves a frightening, mind-boggling portrait of evil. Mailer's fictional treatment of an almost inconceivable passage in world history is as daring as it is provocative.
