Author: Deborah Levy Genre: Fiction Topic: Psychological, Lgbt / General, Literary. At points, the novel seems like a huge exercise in over-writing: whatever it is that has placed Saul in this place can be buried under another, maybe fictional, story. The Man Who Saw Everything Hardcover Deborah Levy Item Height: 0.8in. In a similar fashion, the Saul of the novel is the centre of an absence, a fringe of a thing. Saul was the king who should not be king. The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levyis published by Hamish Hamilton (£14.99). Sheila Burnett It’s the first in a chain of strange, unsettling incidents. In the course of the novel we meet characters with other Biblical names, such as Isaac, David and Elijah. Deborah Levy, whose new novel, The Man Who Saw Everything, was longlisted for the Booker Prize. History.” But the given name is as important as the surname. If the novel had its own motto it might be his words – “It was true that I had no idea how to endure being alive and everything that comes with it.
He does not seem to be able to accomplish anything, from academic achievement to romantic commitment. Deborah Levys electrifying The Man Who Saw Everything examines what we see and what we fail to see, the grave crime of carelessness, the weight of history. Saul, for all his good looks, feels like a loser. Adler refers to the often underrated third member of the trinity of psychotherapists: Freud, Jung and Adler, whose prime theory was the “inferiority complex”.
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