Her masterful autobiographical collection is regarded as a ground-breaking work of autofiction and a major essayistic accomplishment. The novel was translated by Jernej Županič.ĭeborah Levy is one of the UK’s most prominent contemporary writers and playwrights, and one of the great thinkers of our time.
How much damage do we cause ourselves and the people around us by supressing things? The Man Who Saw Everything is a novel that deconstructs itself so that it can be reassembled in the end, which leads us to finish the last page and instantly start reading it all over again. As a historian, Saul then carries out a research trip to East Germany just before the fall of the wall, where he enters a bizarre frenzy of Marxism, eroticism, guilt, and pop culture all blending to make a chaotic whole, focusing on what people are willing to overlook to convey an impression – in the eyes of History and our own eyes – of being who we want to believe we are. Seemingly injured, he visits his girlfriend, artist Jennifer Moreau they split up after engaging in sex.
He gets (perhaps then, perhaps later) hit by a car. In 1988, Saul Adler crosses the famous zebra crossing on Abbey Road in London.
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