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JM Coetzee reviews Norman Mailer's novel about Hitler's family and childhood, The Castle in the Forest. Coetzee runs on beyond Hitler's childhood, with lots of interesting reflection on evil, the Romantic hero, Dostoyevsky, the dangers of the autodidact*, Arendt, and other topics. Mailer seems to be taking a Manichean view in which Hitler's reign ( Read more... )