How do you write about one of the most notorious dictators in history? If you're Norman Mailer, examining the minds, motivations and motifs of the infamous are regular past times. The Castle in the Forest is biographic fiction, detailing the origins of Adolf Hitler. Weaving fact with fancy, and no clear demarcations on where one ends, and one begins, Mailer recounts Hitler's ancestral backgrounds, up to his birth on to his early teenage years.
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Release date January, 2007
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The fashion with which Mailer recounts these tales is through the eyes of Dieter. A former SS agent that is really a mid-level devil in service of Satan. Above the stories of Hitler's family are the sophisticated metaphysical world and hierarchy that sees devils and angels (called Cudgels) battle over the influence of people's souls. Dieter is both narrator and major protagonist of the novel with no clear distinction between story and story teller.
Was Hitler's father the uncle and father of his mother? Did Hitler excel at commanding boys on the school yard at a young age? These are all ideas that Mailer puts forth and leaves up to the reader to believe or discount. An extensive bibliography is given at the end of the book for readers that wish to delve further into the subject.
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