Felsen, Yuri

Deceit

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ISBN 13:: 9781913513238
author:: Felsen, Yuri
format:: Paperback / softback
publisher:: Prototype Publishing Ltd.
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2022
Dimensions:: 17.8 x 11.2 centimetres (0.18 kg
Genre:: Fiction & Literature, General, ,
Condition:: New
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Deceit is a debut novel by Yuri Felsen, a leading modernist writer of the interwar Russian diaspora. Written in the form of diary, this book is a psychological self-portrait of an unnamed narrator, whose often-thwarted pursuits of his love interest and muse provide the grounds for his beautifully wrought extemporizations on love, art and human nature. The narrative modulates between the paroxysms of his tormented romance and his quest for an aesthetic mode befitting of the novel he intends to write. As the diarist goes about Paris, making preparations for the materialisation of his fantasy, we observe his eagerness, dreaminess and poetic inclinations, as well as his compulsive desire to analyse his surroundings and self. However, amidst these ravishing flights of scrutiny, hints of his monomaniacal tendencies begin to emerge, blinding him from the true nature of his circumstances. This is a remarkable work of introspective depth and psychoanalytic inquiry, inviting the reader to second-guess the essence of what really lies behind the narrative.

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