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A review by essjay1
The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
4.0
“It was true that I had no idea how to endure being alive and everything that comes with it”.
Levy writes in such a unique style, shifting her main character Saul between time frames seamlessly yet he is a thoughtless friend, careless with their love and their safety. Throughout this short novel Levy shows us how everything we see is framed by our own expectations, assumptions, experience. How our actions always have consequences - some harmless, some with dreadful ramifications.
This a story about growing up and growing old. About perception. About memory. About love.
Levy writes in such a unique style, shifting her main character Saul between time frames seamlessly yet he is a thoughtless friend, careless with their love and their safety. Throughout this short novel Levy shows us how everything we see is framed by our own expectations, assumptions, experience. How our actions always have consequences - some harmless, some with dreadful ramifications.
This a story about growing up and growing old. About perception. About memory. About love.