ARGONAUT BOOKS

'It is impossible to live without deceit.' 'Deceit' is the first major work by Yuri Felsen, referred to by his contemporaries as 'the Russian Proust', a significant writer who died in the gas chambers in Auschwitz, and whose legacy and archive was destroyed by the Nazis. Written in the form of a diary, the novel recounts the unnamed narrator's complex and emotionally fraught relationship with his love interest and sometime muse. Reviews 'This is ... real literature, pure and honest.' Vladimir Nabokov 'The miracle of Yuri Felsen is how his apparently Nabokovian rh...Read More