The Castle in the Forest

The Castle in the Forest  

Autor: Norman Mailer

Wydawca: Hachette Livre

Oprawa: Miękka

 Format: 15.0x23.0cm

Liczba stron: 480

 Rok wydania: 2007

ISBN: 978-0-316-02738-0

Język wydania: angielski

There are those that suggest merely to look at a childhood photograph of Adolf Hitler is sacrilege. It is to search for innocence within the pale blue eyes, and from that comes a journey of reasoning and justification for later events.

Norman Mailer isn't a subscriber to such censorship, having entered Hitler's bloodline two generations before young Adi was born in 1889, and then sticking with the future Nazi leader's formative childhood years, in the narrative of his new book. What we find is a stinking cess pool of incest, petty thuggery, piety and rage - and that's well before the cataclysmic events described when Adolf is conceived by Alois Hitler and his wife, 'daughter' and niece, Klara.