She wanted to escape from a reality that was so rational it was a little bit mad. Levy uses the Wall as a way of exploring before and after conscious and unconscious transgressions and real and imagined betrayals. In this story, the Berlin Wall is the central motif.
If you’ve read Levy in the past and appreciate her off-beat, slightly weird characters and her particular writing style – is there a word for detailed but pared-back at the same time? – then The Man Who Saw Everything won’t disappoint.Īs always with Levy, I feel as if there’s meaning embedded in every single detail, half of which I miss. I was embarrassed beyond measure to have brought such a large portion of my own sorrow to the GDR. If that’s not enough to convince you, know there’s an extraordinarily clever plot twist.
If stories about East Germany, or The Beatles, or how memory works are of interest, add this book to your list. There’s a blurb, but don’t worry about it. Welcome to my first review of 2021 where I say absolutely nothing about the plot of the book.ĭeborah Levy’s The Man Who Saw Everything is best read cold.
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