The South-African born Brit began as a poet and playwright, working with the Royal Shakespeare Company and publishing poetry collections with such charming titles as An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell (1990). We are lucky to live in the world of Deborah Levy. Slipping slyly between time zones and leaving a spiralling trail, Deborah Levy’s electrifying The Man Who Saw Everything examines what we see and what we fail to see, the grave crime of carelessness, the weight of history and our ruinous attempts to shrug it off.The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy And he will befriend a hippy, Rainer, who may or may not be a Stasi agent, but will certainly return to haunt him in middle age. He will fall in love and brood upon his difficult, authoritarian father. There he will encounter – significantly – both his assigned translator and his translator’s sister, who swears she has seen a jaguar prowling the city. Saul leaves to study in communist East Berlin, two months before the Wall comes down. They have sex then break up, but not before she has photographed Saul crossing the same Abbey Road. He is apparently fine he gets up and goes to see his art student girlfriend, Jennifer Moreau. In 1988 Saul Adler (a narcissistic, young historian) is hit by a car on the Abbey Road. ‘The man who had nearly run me over had touched my hair, as if he were touching a statue or something without a heartbeat…’ ‘An ice-cold skewering of patriarchy, humanity and the darkness of the 20th century Europe’ The Times ‘An utterly beguiling fever dream of a novel… Its sheer technical bravura places it head and shoulder above pretty much everything else on the longlist’ Daily Telegraph SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2019 One of the most exciting books of the year – this new masterpiece from Deborah Levy is the perfect gift
0 kommentar(er)
