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Obviously, through his fictional analysis of Hitler’s family, Mailer has not fully explained Hitler’s further development. In the rural regions of Austria, as elsewhere, incest was rampant and thousands of children in similar situations have not become monsters. But Mailer has described a situation that would favor such a development and at the time of its publication, he was, after all, not yet done with Hitler. What he has done in this “high risk” novel as it has been referred to by one critic, is to look at the Hitler phenomenon outside of an explicitly moralistic discourse. This is a relatively new mode in the discussion of Nazism—which, incidentally, does not deny the continued necessity of the moral discussion. That he has achieved this by introducing a devil as a narrator is maybe the most surprising and highly ironic moment of this remarkable novel. | Obviously, through his fictional analysis of Hitler’s family, Mailer has not fully explained Hitler’s further development. In the rural regions of Austria, as elsewhere, incest was rampant and thousands of children in similar situations have not become monsters. But Mailer has described a situation that would favor such a development and at the time of its publication, he was, after all, not yet done with Hitler. What he has done in this “high risk” novel as it has been referred to by one critic, is to look at the Hitler phenomenon outside of an explicitly moralistic discourse. This is a relatively new mode in the discussion of Nazism—which, incidentally, does not deny the continued necessity of the moral discussion. That he has achieved this by introducing a devil as a narrator is maybe the most surprising and highly ironic moment of this remarkable novel. | ||
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* {{cite book |last=Mailer |first=Norman |authormask=1 |date=1995 |title=Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery |url= |location=New York |publisher=Random House |pages= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} | * {{cite book |last=Mailer |first=Norman |authormask=1 |date=1995 |title=Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery |url= |location=New York |publisher=Random House |pages= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Stierlin |first=Helm |date=1976 |title=Hitler: Familienperspektiven |url= |location=Frankfurt |publisher=M. Suhrkamp |pages= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} American ed. {{cite book |author=<!--same--> |date=1976 |title=Adolf Hitler: A Family Perspective |url= |location=New York |publisher=Psychohistory Press |pages= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} | * {{cite book |last=Stierlin |first=Helm |date=1976 |title=Hitler: Familienperspektiven |url= |location=Frankfurt |publisher=M. Suhrkamp |pages= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} American ed. {{cite book |author=<!--same--> |date=1976 |title=Adolf Hitler: A Family Perspective |url= |location=New York |publisher=Psychohistory Press |pages= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} | ||
* {{cite journal |last=Uplike |first=John |title=Beck in Czech |url= |journal=J.U. Bech at Bey |volume= |issue= |date=1998 |pages=3-36 |access-date= |ref=harv }} | * {{cite journal |last=Uplike |first=John |title=Beck in Czech |url= |journal=J. U. Bech at Bey |volume= |issue= |date=1998 |pages=3-36 |access-date= |ref=harv }} | ||
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