The Death of the Adversary, (Paperback)

from abycats

So utterly German and psychoanalytic that it was almost unreadable BUT was reading it for class so pushed thru. A portrait of the internal vacillations of a German Jew during the rise of Hitler, the narrator manages to delude himself for most of the book. He finally realizes however that it's not...

from BlackSheepDances

Translated from the German by Iva Jarosy "One cannot cut the lines of experience out of one's face, like the rotten bits in an apple; one has to carry them about in one's face and know that one carries them; one sees them, as in a mirror, every day when one washes oneself, and one cannot cut them...

from bhowell

This is a haunting philosophical tale of a Jewish child growing up in the 1920s and 1930s of Hitler's Germany. His adversary, whom he calls B, is clearly Hitler. It is because of B that he is teased and tormented at school and his personal chronicles reflect the growing menace of Nazism in German...

from kant1066

This may be the most enjoyable experience reading fiction that I have had in the last year - and also one of the most profound and unexpected. My attention was piqued in June when I heard of Keilson's death at the age of 101; I knew he was considered to be a good author, yet I never read him. Hav...

from kant1066

This may be the most enjoyable experience reading fiction that I have had in the last year - and also one of the most profound and unexpected. My attention was piqued in June when I heard of Keilson's death at the age of 101; I knew he was considered to be a good author, yet I never read him. Hav...