Increasingly surreal and thoroughly gripping Sunday TelegraphĮxquisite.
One of the best books I have ever read Katherine Angel via TwitterĬharged with themes spanning memory and mortality, beauty and time, it's as electrifying as it is mysterious Mail on SundayĪ time-bending, location-hopping tale of love, truth and the power of seeing. You would call her example inspiring if it weren't clearly impossible to emulate New Statesman One of the big stories in English fiction this decade has been the return and triumph of Deborah Levy. Intelligent and supple.a dizzying tale of life across time and borders Financial Times This is an extraordinary novel that captures the zeitgeist and specters of 20th-century Communism in such a way that far exceeds the 200 pages it is bound in. It's clever, raw and doesn't play by any rules Evening Standard The Man Who Saw Everything is bifurcated into two time periods: 19, but by Deborah Levy's deft hand and brilliant command of metaphor, the boundaries of space and time collapse. Its sheer technical bravura places it head and shoulder above pretty much everything else on the longlist Daily TelegraphĪn ice-cold skewering of patriarchy, humanity and the darkness of the 20th century Europe The Times Head-spinning and playful, her writing offers sophistication and delightful artistry Kirkus (Starred review)Īn utterly beguiling fever dream of a novel. 'The Man Who Saw Everything is bifurcated into two time periods: 19, but by Deborah Levys deft hand and brilliant command of metaphor, the boundaries of space and time collapse. Levy defies gravity in a daring, time-bending new novel. Daily Telegraph Deborah Levys intelligent and supple latest novel, The Man Who Saw Everything, recently longlisted for the Booker Prize. Here, Levy traverses the vast reaches of the human imagination while artfully blurring sexual and political binaries-feminine and masculine, East and West, past and present-to reveal the full spectrum of our world.Superbly crafted, enigmatic, tantalizing. It greets the specters that come back to haunt old and new love, previous and current incarnations of Europe, conscious and unconscious transgressions, and real and imagined betrayals, while investigating the cyclic nature of history and its reinvention by people in power. The Man Who Saw Everything is about the difficulty of seeing ourselves and others clearly. As he waits for her to arrive, he is grazed by an oncoming car, which changes the trajectory of his life. As a gift for his translator's sister, a Beatles fanatic who will be his host, Saul's girlfriend will shoot a photograph of him standing in the crosswalk on Abbey Road, an homage to the famous album cover. It is 1988 and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berlin to do research in exchange, he must publish a favorable essay about the German Democratic Republic.
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