![]() In 1988 a young self obsessed Jewish historian, Saul Adler, is hit by a car on the Abbey Road, the iconic Abbey Road that the Beatles are photographed on the famous cover of their 1969 album. Levy makes few compromises here, she raises many questions and more often than not declines to provide any answers, there are nebulous, fragmented, uncertain and unreliable realities, memories and history. Here, Levy traverses the vast reaches of the human imagination while artfully blurring sexual and political binaries-feminine and masculine,įor those readers who need to be on sure and certain ground in their reading, this latest Deborah Levy novel is not for them. 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. ![]() The Man Who Saw Everything is about the difficulty of seeing ourselves and others clearly. ![]() ![]() As he waits for her to arrive, he is grazed by an oncoming car, which changes the trajectory of his life. 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. 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. ![]()
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