Vorstellung (the word can mean both ‘show’ and ‘idea’) tells the story of a magician whose mastery of craft opens a personal trap-door of endless illusion. His soaring, daring new novel, F, delivers the proof.īorn in Munich in 1975 to an actor mother and theater-director father, Kehlmann grew up in Vienna, studied philosophy and literature, and published his first novel, Beerholm’s Vorstellung, at age 22. Doctorow, July 4, 2011.ĭaniel Kehlmann, one of the most brilliant writers working today in any language, has not been thrown off course by early success. It gives one the impression that everything is easy and that imagination knows no limits.” “Good literature comes from an economy of means, great literature from extravagant squandering.
“The terrifying beauty of things” does, too.į: A Novel by Daniel Kehlmann.
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