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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Published: Jul 2010
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $14.00
Pages: 208
Written while Hans Keilson was in hiding during World War II and first published in 1959, The Death of the Adversary is the self-portrait of a young man helplessly fascinated—obsessed—by an unnamed "adversary," whom he watches rise to power in 1930s Germany. It is a tale of horror, not only in its evocation of Hitler's gathering menace but in its hero's desperate attempt to discover logic where none exists. A psychological fable as haunting as Badenheim 1939, The Death of the Adversary is a lost classic of modern fiction.