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The Man Who Saw Everything by Levy, Deborah is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Man Who Saw Everything about?

An electrifying and audacious novel about beauty, envy, and carelessness by Deborah Levy, two-time Man Booker Prize finalist. 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. 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. As he waits for her to arrive, he is grazed by an oncoming car, which changes the trajectory of his life-and this story of good intentions and reckless actions. The Man Who Saw Everything is about the difficulty of seeing ourselves and others clearly. 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. Here, Levy traverses the vast reaches of the human imagination while artfully blurring sexual and political binaries-feminine and masculine,

Who reads The Man Who Saw Everything?

Author

Levy, Deborah

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781632869869

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.8 / 5 (1,372 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14