A review by henrymarlene
The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy

4.0

In the glow of sun and smoke filled sky, I finished 'The man who saw everything' by Deborah Levy. A short read at 200 odd pages, it is built on perception. Perceptions of the main character, Saul, mingled with perceptions of time, my perceptions as the reader, trying to work out what was real, what was when, and whether I needed to ask those questions. I found Saul was hard to feel sorry for, and it was intriguing to read how Jennifer, his girlfriend, made him her muse, which left him struggling with whether she only loved him for his beauty. And his string of pearls. Funny when I think about them when they were cut from his neck and restrung - was this the point where nothing was really as it seemed? Loved it, recommend it to you.

Let me know if you read it and what you thought.