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La Morte Dell'avversario (1959)

by Hans Keilson(Favorite Author)

3.59 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

8804610220 (ISBN13: 9788804610229)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Mondadori

review 1: While this book offers a chilling and moving account of the growth of Hitler's power during the 1920s and 1930s, I found it a very hard book to read. The language was awkward--possibly the translator, possibly a more stilted style of pre-war German writing. In addition, there were many paragraphs of philosophical musing where I had a hard time figuring out what the author meant. There was a lot of repetition--with tighter editing it would have worked better as a novella rather than a shortish novel. The time sequences were also confusing. The last third of the novel was much better, in my opinion.
review 2: 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 ... morea 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 an academic exercise that Hitler accuses the Jews of this, that and everything. They're not merely friendly adversaries, they're enemies. Perhaps many people felt, like this writer, that it couldn't be happening. A very grim read. less

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