A novel told almost entirely in overheard dialogue between a writer named Philip and his English mistress in London, moving between their pillow talk, arguments about jealousy and fidelity, and his account of researching a biography of the reclusive writer Lonoff whose widow blocked him at every turn; the book ends with the lover confronting him after reading his manuscript about their affair.
Books mentioned in Deception (11)
Letter to His Father by Franz Kafka: “I remember those A students all reading Kafka's Letter to His Father and explaining exactly how "Metamorphosis" and The Trial derived from his relationship to his father.”
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka: “I remember those A students all reading Kafka's Letter to His Father and explaining exactly how "Metamorphosis" and The Trial derived from his relationship to his father.”
The Trial by Franz Kafka: “I remember those A students all reading Kafka's Letter to His Father and explaining exactly how "Metamorphosis" and The Trial derived from his relationship to his father.”
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: “If Tolstoy had imagined himself in love with Anna Karenina, had Hardy imagined himself in an affair with Tess”
The Blood of the Walsungs by Thomas Mann: “I wanted to carry on endlessly about "The Blood of the Walsungs" and "Michael Kohlhaas" and "In the Ravine."”
Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist: “I wanted to carry on endlessly about "The Blood of the Walsungs" and "Michael Kohlhaas" and "In the Ravine."”
In the Ravine by Anton Chekhov: “I wanted to carry on endlessly about "The Blood of the Walsungs" and "Michael Kohlhaas" and "In the Ravine."”
White Nights: The Story of a Prisoner in Russia by Menachem Begin: “Books: Heine's Jewish Comedy by Prawer, The Jew as Pariah by Hannah Arendt, White Nights by Menachem Begin – on and on.”
The Jew as Pariah by Hannah Arendt: “Books: Heine's Jewish Comedy by Prawer, The Jew as Pariah by Hannah Arendt, White Nights by Menachem Begin – on and on.”
Heine's Jewish Comedy by S. S. Prawer: “Books: Heine's Jewish Comedy by Prawer, The Jew as Pariah by Hannah Arendt, White Nights by Menachem Begin – on and on.”