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During his time here, keilson wrote a few books in dutch language, crediting himself under the pseudonym benjamin cooper. It is a tale of horror, not only in its evocation of hitlers gathering menace but also in its heros desperate attempt to discover logic where none. Painful, trenchant and streaked with dark humour, the death of the adversary is a rediscovered masterpiece. For days and weeks now i have thought of nothhing but death. The death of the adversary by hans keilson overdrive.
Hans keilson never mentions the word jew, hitler, or germany in his novel about the 1930s but notions of history inform the listener of what keilson is writing about. The death of the adversary is a firstperson narrative told by a man who describes his hatred for an enemy, known as b, who sounds a lot like adolf hitler. A jewish doctor from germany who had published a novel in 1933 and seen it. Hans alex keilson was a germandutch novelist, poet, psychoanalyst and child psychologist. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the death of the adversary. The death of the adversary is a biographical novel, begun as hitler was coming to power, completed after he died. Hans alex keilson was born on december 12 1909 at bad freienwalde, a spa town near the polish border, the son of a jewish textile merchant who had won an iron cross in the first world war.
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