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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 Aharon Appelfeld's Badenheim 1939, The Death of the Adversary is a lost classic of modern fiction.Originally published in 1959 in German by Westermann Verlag, Germany, as Der tod des widersachers. English translation originally published in 1962 by the Orion Press, New York.