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"An account of the Nazi-occupied Netherlands from one of Europe's most powerful chroniclers of the Holocaust. In 2010, FSG published two novels set in World War II by the German Jewish psychoanalyst Hans Keilson: The Death of the Adversary (1959) and Comedy in a Minor Key (1944). With their Chekhovian sympathy for perpetrators and bystanders as much as for victims and resisters, they were, as Francine Prose raved on the front page of The New York Times Book Review, 'masterpieces' by 'a genius.' After Keilson's death at age 101, a diary was found among his papers covering nine months in hiding…
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1 edition- Other · English · 2017Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 227 pages · 9780374535599
German AuthorsDiariesJewish Personal narrativesGerman JewsDutch Personal narrativesUnderground movementsWorld War, 1939-1945German Sonnets