Happiness
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Author: Yuri Felsen
Winner of the English PEN Award, 'Happiness' is a haunting portrait of love, obsession and exile that captures the emotional and psychological tensions of interwar Paris. This is the second novel in Yuri Felsen’s 'The Recurrence of Things Past' trilogy, it is both subtle and profound in its exploration of love, art, literature, and human frailty. A stream-of-consciousness diary, it explores the unravelling of a complex relationship and offers a glimpse into émigré life and shifting sexual politics.Felsen’s trilogy traces the tormented romance of its protagonist alongside his artistic evolution, standing at the forefront aesthetic and philosophical currents in European modernism.‘This is real literature, pure and honest’ – Vladimir Nabokov‘Felsen has rightly been compared to Proust in his determination to makelanguage capture every atom of the mind’s working.’ – Literary Review ‘Felsen’s name deserves to be conjured with, just as it was before Paris fell.’ – The Sunday Telegraph‘Yuri Felsen’s Deceit offers the reader that rarest of gifts: a glimpse into consciousness as it was constructed nearly a hundred years ago; a portrait not only of how one Russian émigré lived in Paris in the first half of the Twentieth Century but of what and how he thought. This is an improbably modern novel in which, to my own surprise, I seemed, again and again, to encounter and recognize myself.’ – Miranda Popkey, author of Topics of Conversation‘As astute as it is disturbed, as callow as it is wise, and as brilliant as it is idiosyncratic, Deceit reads like the twisted love child of Proust and Dostoevsky, but with a genius all its own.’ – Antoine Wilson, author of Mouth to Mouth and Panorama City
ISBN 9781913513849. Prototype Publishing. pb. 260 pages, paperback 198mm x 129mm.
not yet published
Winner of the English PEN Award, 'Happiness' is a haunting portrait of love, obsession and exile that captures the emotional and psychological tensions of interwar Paris. This is the second novel in Yuri Felsen’s 'The Recurrence of Things Past' trilogy, it is both subtle and profound in its exploration of love, art, literature, and human frailty. A stream-of-consciousness diary, it explores the unravelling of a complex relationship and offers a glimpse into émigré life and shifting sexual politics.Felsen’s trilogy traces the tormented romance of its protagonist alongside his artistic evolution, standing at the forefront aesthetic and philosophical currents in European modernism.‘This is real literature, pure and honest’ – Vladimir Nabokov‘Felsen has rightly been compared to Proust in his determination to makelanguage capture every atom of the mind’s working.’ – Literary Review ‘Felsen’s name deserves to be conjured with, just as it was before Paris fell.’ – The Sunday Telegraph‘Yuri Felsen’s Deceit offers the reader that rarest of gifts: a glimpse into consciousness as it was constructed nearly a hundred years ago; a portrait not only of how one Russian émigré lived in Paris in the first half of the Twentieth Century but of what and how he thought. This is an improbably modern novel in which, to my own surprise, I seemed, again and again, to encounter and recognize myself.’ – Miranda Popkey, author of Topics of Conversation‘As astute as it is disturbed, as callow as it is wise, and as brilliant as it is idiosyncratic, Deceit reads like the twisted love child of Proust and Dostoevsky, but with a genius all its own.’ – Antoine Wilson, author of Mouth to Mouth and Panorama City
ISBN 9781913513849. Prototype Publishing. pb. 260 pages, paperback 198mm x 129mm.
not yet published