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THE CASTLE IN THE FOREST
January 15, 2007 - Having assumed the voice of Jesus in an earlier novel, the irrepressible Mailer here gives the darker spiritual forces their due. Narrated by a former German SS officer who ultimately reveals a number of surprising secrets—about both himself and the Hitler family—the plot encompasses the incest leading to Adolf's conception and the first 13 years of his life. With a conversational tone that is never ponderous yet not quite comic, the narrator illuminates intimate details of Adolf's parents' sexual life, as well as their baby's breast-feeding and bowel movements. It probes the sibling rivalries that result in the death of one brother (perhaps with Adolf's complicity) and the departure of another, a wilder boy than young Adolf....Alternately engaging, embarrassing and exasperating. ...Full Review
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