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Monica was aptly portrayed on TIME's cover: a pretty face with a beguiling smile, which proved to be flimsy and have little of substance behind it and, above all, has come too close for comfort. ILANA KEILSON New York City...
...Death of the Adversary, by Hans Keilson. The author, a German Jew, explores the strange relationship between a hunted man and his persecutor...
...Death of the Adversary, by Hans Keilson. Hate has never been so exhaustively and eloquently explored as in this novel about a dictator and his victim...
...Death of the Adversary, by Hans Keilson. In this dark novel, the author, a German Jew, tries with some success to unthread the fabric of hate: Why did the Germans, Jew and Gentile, acquiesce so passively in Hitler's crime of Jewish extermination...
...Keilson's novel is, at least in part, autobiographical. Like his hero, Keilson joined the Resistance after years of anguish, helped Jews and downed pilots escape from occupied Holland. In 1942 he wrote the first 40 pages of The Death of the Adversary, buried them in his garden for the duration of the war. "If ever I came out of this war alive," he vowed, "I knew I was going to be a psychiatrist." Today he is a practicing psychoanalyst in Amsterdam and writes poetry and fiction on the side. "Everybody writes novels about love and/or sex," he says...