The Death of the Adversary (Paperback)

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.