Death of the Adversary The

Written while Hans Keilson was in hiding during World War II The Death of the Adversary is the self-portrait of a young man helplessly fascinated 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 also in its hero''s desperate attempt to discover logic where none exists. A psychological fable as wry and haunting as Badenheim 1939 The Death of the Adversary is a lost classic of modern fiction.