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9th edition, June 2011 It's just after the second world war. A lawyer asks an acquaintance to read a manuscript that was given to him during the war. It turns out to be the story of a nameless young man in an unnamed country, belonging to a community that is threatened with destruction by a certain B. The young man tells how from an early age he becomes increasingly captivated by B. He tries to understand why he and those around him evoke so much hatred in B. He is forced to hide his true identity, for example from his girlfriend, when her brother's friends turn out to have destroyed a cemetery of his community. In his efforts to fathom the events of the time, he moves more and more into his opponent and eventually develops a kind of love-hate relationship with him. 'Under the spell of the adversary' is a fascinating analysis of the relationship between victim and executioner, love and hate. It is the story of enmity that penetrates deep into the reader and contains unique insights about the greatest tragedy of the twentieth century.
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