Imagining Evil

The Sardonic Narrator of Mailer's Last Novel

Authors

Christopher Busa Author

Keywords:

The Castle in the Forest, evil and mortality, sardonic narration, Adolf Hitler, good versus evil, historical imagination

Author Biography

Christopher Busa

Christopher Busa is the founding editor of the Provincetown Arts Press, which has been publishing the annual journal Provincetown Arts since 1985. A nonprofit literary organization, the press also publishes first books of poetry and monographs on distinguished older artists.

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Published

2026-06-16

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2011): Norris Mailer: A Life in Words

Section

Book Reviews

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