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Norman Mailer, Part II

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Michael Silverblatt

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The Castle in the Forest (Random House)

In this conversation about the bureaucratic, dim-witted culture that characterized the German provinces of Hitler's childhood, Mailer reveals that his narrator, an assistant to the devil, is himself a bureaucrat. Bureaucracy becomes the model for the world of this novel, down to the smallest detail—the beehives kept by Hitler's father. Mailer waxes hilarious about the sexual behavior of bees.

Read an excerpt from The Castle in the Forest.

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Norman Mailer: American novelist, journalist and playwright

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