'The Man Who Saw Everything' Is An Eye-Opening Read
Deborah Levy's new book considers themes of objectification, betrayal and focus, centered on a historian who goes to East Berlin and finds himself both the observer and the observed.
Deborah Levy is a risk-taker — in both her life and work. Her recent memoir, offered a gutsy take on finding her footing and voice in a world in which women are often relegated to supporting roles. With her new novel, she pulls off something even trickier, plunging us into a sometimes-confusing narrative that involves a man who actually sees nothing clearly. Her anti-hero, Saul Adler, is an addled British historian who blurs the boundaries between past and present, East and West, love and carelessness, reality and fantasy, life
