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Norman Mailer: Works and Days
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“Norman Mailer Invokes the Devil to Take on Hitler.” Article-interview by Michael Lee. Cape Cod Voice, 18 January-31 January, 4–5, 19–22. Long, fascinating discussion of Hitler and evil. Asked if the burning of the bees in the novel (07.10) was a metaphor for the Holocaust, Mailer says, “I wasn’t trying to make this a railroad track as to how Hitler became a monster.” Mailer also talks about the unconscious:

Rpt: Literary Review 50 (summer 2007), 202–117.