I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something essentially splendid because it's not at all routine or automatic. Fascism goes back to our infancy and childhood, where we were always told how to live. We were told, Yes, you may do this; no, you may not do that. So the secret of fascism is that it has this appeal to people whose later lives are not satisfactory.

The Castle in the Forest was awarded a Bad Sex in Fiction Award by the Literary Review magazine. He publiNorman Mailerd 11 novels over a 59-year span. "
The book was also enormously successful selling more copies than any of his works except The Naked and the Dead.

In addition to the Pulitzer Prize Mailer's book Armies of the Night was awarded the National Book Award. Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31 1923 – November 10 2007) was an American novelist journalist essayist playwright film maker actor and political candidate.