Hans Kaylson - perhaps the greatest novelist of which you've never heard . " The death of my enemy" is a masterpiece , and Hans Kaylson genius . Novel "The Death of My Enemy " (1959) , an intimate psychological (auto) portrait of a young German Jew who observed the political career of the dictator and his BA toward it; autobiographical original combination of historicism and art and abstraction. In 1962, Time magazine included the novel in ten of the most important books of the year , together with the texts of Faulkner , Nabokov , Philip Roth and Borges. In Russian Kaylsona work published for the first time .