The Castle in the Forest
Mailer's last completed novel: the boyhood of Adolf Hitler, narrated by Dieter, a minion of the Devil. Dedicated to his grandchildren. The book — and Mailer's claim that the Devil attended Hitler's conception as God attended Jesus's — drew an enormous press response (see 07.1–07.30).
Mailer’s last completed novel: the boyhood of Adolf Hitler, narrated by Dieter, a minion of the Devil. Dedicated to his grandchildren. The book — and Mailer’s claim that the Devil attended Hitler’s conception as God attended Jesus’s — drew an enormous press response (see 07.1–07.30).
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- Rollyson, Carl. “Mailer: Lost in the Forest in Search of Adolf Hitler.” New York Sun 17 Jan 2007, Arts & Letters: 1, 2007-01-17. register
- Mallon, Thomas. “Portrait of a Young Dictator.” Wall Street Journal 20 Jan 2007, eastern ed.: P1, 2007-01-20. register
- Siegel, Lee. “Maestro of the Human Ego.” New York Times Book Review (21 Jan 2007): 1). [Note: A version of this article also appears in the…, 2007-01-21. register
- Indiana, Gary. “The Devil You Know, The Devil You Don’t.” www.villagevoice.com. 23 Jan 2007, 2007-01-23. register
- Coetzee, J.M. “Portrait of the Monster as a Young Artist.” New York Review of Books, 2007-02-15, 8. register
- Abell, Stephen. “The Anality of Evil.” TLS: Times Literary Supplement 16 Feb 2007: 21–22, 2007-02-16. register
- Ricks, Christopher. “The Devil Only Knows.” Mailer Review, 2007, 206–14. register
- Sipiora, Phillip. “Moments of Metaphor in Mailer’s Castle.” Mailer Review, 2007, 229–33. register
- Grünzweig, Walter. “The Hitler Family: A Relational Approach to Norman Mailer.” The Mailer Review, 2008, 330–36. register
- Whalen-Bridge, John. “"Their Humor Annoyed Him": Cavalier Wit and Sympathy for the Devil in The Castle in the Forest.” The Mailer Review, 2008, 318–29. register
- Fleming, James R. “'But Where is the Castle?': The Function of Modernist Allegory in Norman Mailer's The Castle in the Forest.” EAPSU Online: A Journal of Critical and Creative Work, 2008, 143–55. register
- Grunzweig, Walter. “The Hitler Family: A Relational Approach to Norman Mailer.” The Mailer Review, 2008, 330–336. register