'The Death of the Adversary' and 'Comedy in a Minor Key' by Hans Keilson - NYTimes.com

'The Death of the Adversary' and 'Comedy in a Minor Key' by Hans Keilson - NYTimes.com: "This unusual strategy is employed throughout “The Death of the Adversary,” whose narrator, a young man growing up during the ascendance of National Socialism, is at once obsessed with Hitler and unable to speak or even think the name of the Führer, whom he can refer to only as “my enemy” or, occasionally, “B.” The word “Nazi” is never mentioned, and only the most coded allusions are made to the fact that the protagonist is Jewish.