The Death of the Adversary by Hans Keilson Paperback Book

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Author: Hans Keilson

Format: Quality Paperback

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux

Published: Jul 2010

Genre: Fiction - Literary

Retail Price: $14.00

Pages: 208

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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.

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