The Death of adversario Hans Keilson
Editorial Lowercase
1st edition, September 2010
Fan of Charles Andrew
Genre: Novel
301 site
ISBN: 9788495587688
These days I have the opportunity to be guided talking with publishers, authors, agents and journalists, and when I mentioned the impact that I had done reading opponent's death, all the same thing I answered: "of course, is that publishing is Tiny ... ". Said it as if it were a truism that if a title is published in this seal, the force has to be good. But my answer imposing a qualification: "This book surpasses all others."
opponent's death is a perfect work that operates at peak performance in different aspects. On the one hand, is a device that recreates, through a character's confused and somewhat marginalized, the advent of Nazism, although the reader you will not find a single reference to it, nor to Judaism or Hitler. We know they are there, but the narrator (first person) does not specify explicitly what is gradually emerging in Germany. We see that there is a speaker starts to win people over with his politics, we noticed some parents distressed by what lies ahead and, especially, a young man, as is becoming an adult, is being swallowed by the strength and power of his adversary.
In addition, there is a deep and accurate reflection on the limits of fiction and reality and the moment when the border between the two is diluted. How a person who lived Nazism can adapt what he witnessed or had to carry out a literary exercise? And more: Is it a literary exercise? The reader will find in the adversary Death different instants in which stop reading to answer a few unknowns that the author raises: what is it really hate?, What motivates the gene have an enemy (whether individual or collective)?
opponent's death is one more novel about Nazism: here we find murder, brutality and concentration camps, but tells the attempt to understand what motivates some inexplicable attitudes in human being. And Hans Keilson do extraordinarily well without ever losing the narrative pulse. This is a novel not easily forgotten. I said it Sukkwan Island, by David Vann (Alfabia / Empúries) and I say this: among the good of the year, the adversary death is among the best.
opponent's death is a perfect work that operates at peak performance in different aspects. On the one hand, is a device that recreates, through a character's confused and somewhat marginalized, the advent of Nazism, although the reader you will not find a single reference to it, nor to Judaism or Hitler. We know they are there, but the narrator (first person) does not specify explicitly what is gradually emerging in Germany. We see that there is a speaker starts to win people over with his politics, we noticed some parents distressed by what lies ahead and, especially, a young man, as is becoming an adult, is being swallowed by the strength and power of his adversary.
In addition, there is a deep and accurate reflection on the limits of fiction and reality and the moment when the border between the two is diluted. How a person who lived Nazism can adapt what he witnessed or had to carry out a literary exercise? And more: Is it a literary exercise? The reader will find in the adversary Death different instants in which stop reading to answer a few unknowns that the author raises: what is it really hate?, What motivates the gene have an enemy (whether individual or collective)?
opponent's death is one more novel about Nazism: here we find murder, brutality and concentration camps, but tells the attempt to understand what motivates some inexplicable attitudes in human being. And Hans Keilson do extraordinarily well without ever losing the narrative pulse. This is a novel not easily forgotten. I said it Sukkwan Island, by David Vann (Alfabia / Empúries) and I say this: among the good of the year, the adversary death is among the best.
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