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My enemy - I shall refer to him as B. - entered my life about twenty years ago. At that time I had only a very vague idea of what it meant to be someone's enemy, still less did I realise what it was to have an enemy. One has to mature gradually towards one's enemy as towards one's best friend.1930s Germany, the shadow of Nazism looms. Pictures of the new dictator, 'B.', fill magazines and newspapers. Our hero is ten when his world begins to change dramatically. Suddenly, the other children won't let him join in their games. Later, he is refused a job on a shop-floor. Later still, he hears youths boasting of an attack on a Jewish cemetery. Both hypnotised and horrified by his enemy, our hero chronicles the fear, anger and defiance of everyday life under tyranny. Written while Hans Keilson was in hiding during World War II, this novel is a powerful account of what he outlived. Painful, trenchant and streaked with dark humour The Death of the Adversary is a rediscovered masterpiece.

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Written by Keilson whilst in hiding during WWII, The Death of the Adversary is a rediscovered masterpiece.

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Hans Keilson



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'I'll say this as quickly and clearly as possible: The Death of the Adversary is a masterpiece, and Hans Keilson is a genius'
New York Times Book Review

'Hans Keilson's novel subtly and eloquently probes the ambivalent relation of victim with aggressor... Keilson traces the growth of hatred in his leading character as other writers trace love or self-knowledge'
Time

'[Keilson is] a consummate artist, a wonderful writer'
Globe and Mail

'The story is amazing: Hans Keilson, born in 1909, is a German Jew who, during World War II, became a member of the Dutch resistance, then a novelist and psychiatrist specializing in the war trauma of children, and is still living, at almost 101, near Amsterdam. Half a lifetime ago, he gave up fiction for his practice... Then, this year, he is rediscovered... It's as if, one morning, we were to learn that not only had Anne Frank survived the secret annex but was also still among us'
Los Angeles Times

Titel
The Death of the Adversary
Autor
Hans Keilson
EAN
9781446477540
ISBN
978-1-4464-7754-0
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Random House
Herausgeber
Random House
Veröffentlichung
12.05.2011
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
0.3 MB
Anzahl Seiten
224
Jahr
2011
Untertitel
Englisch
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