Deceit by Yuri Felsen, translated by Bryan Karetnyk Человек and the author of several

and the author of several books

part philosophical thriller

Твердый переплёт

its legacy is much more enduring

Edited by Robert Chandler and Boris Dralyuk

Deceit by Yuri Felsen, translated by Bryan Karetnyk Человек and the author of severalWith a Foreword by Peter Pomerantsev Appearing for the first time in English, Deceit is the debut novel by Yuri Felsen, a leading modernist writer of the interwar Russian diaspora. Known by his contemporaries as the Russian Proust, Felsen died in the gas chambers at Auschwitz, his life and legacy destroyed by the Nazis. Written in the form of diary, Deceit is a psychological self portrait of an unnamed narrator, a neurasthenic and aspiring author,