![]() ![]() ![]() Our main character is an historian focusing on the psychology of tyrants, Saul Adler. And echoing images from the novel itself. Now, I’m not saying the above as a judgment at all, just my attempt at a description of this slippery little novel. The Man Who Saw Everything didn’t fall into any of these shapes – was it Vonnegut who talked about the shapes of stories? The Man Who Saw Everything was jagged and fragmented, like a child’s kaleidoscope, reflecting and repeating slivers of narrative. Others are shaped like a tree, branching and dividing but never losing sight of the central trunk. Others are very linear taking a route from inciting incident to resolution without a deviation. ![]() There are some novels which flow fluidly like a river. Disclaimer: Received from NetGalley and the publisher, Penguin, in exchange for an honest review. ![]()
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