The Village Voice, January 31st, 2007
The Devil and Adolf
Norman Mailer channels one of hell's angels in his saga of the Hitler family
The Castle in the Forest
By Norman Mailer
Random House, 477 pp., $27.95
The Andre Gide epigraph of The Deer Park-would serve Norman Mailer's new novel, The Castle in the Forest, equally well: "Do not understand me too quickly."
Any novel about Hitler, or, for that matter, any other world-historical figure, is doomed to banality unless it mints a counter-myth. Beryl Bainbridge did the twentyish Hitler to a riotous turn in Young Adolf, Gore Vidal gave us a fat-assed, fatuous Jesus in Live From ...
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