Yuri Felsen (born: Nikolai Freudenstein), pictured on the top row, sixth from the left, is seen with a group of literary colleagues from the Paris-based émigré journal Chisla. Felsen, who died in 1943 at Auschwitz, will be published in English for the first time ever. His work, which had been long forgotten and is still essentially unknown, will now be shared with a wide international audience.
Felsen's 1930 novel, Deceit, which was originally published only in Russian, details the unnamed narrator's experiences in Paris during the inter-war period in diary form. It largely centers on his troubled relationship with his love interest, Lyolya. Felsen has been praised as "The Russian Proust."
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