Neo Rauch(1st Edition) PROPAGANDA (Spotlight Series) by DanielKehlmann, Neo Rauch Hardcover, 76 Pages, Published 2019 by David Zwirner Books ISBN-13: 978-1-64423-011-4, ISBN: 1-64423-011-9
"One of the most influential figurative painters of his generation, Neo Rauch presents bold, new work in PROPAGANDA.Rauch is widely celebrated for his captivating compositions that bring together figurative painting and surrealism into an entirely new kind of visual encounter. They often hint at broader narratives and histories—seemingly reconnecting with artistic traditions of realism—but they remain dreamlike and impossible to reduce t ..."
"'A comic tour de force, a biting satire on the hypnotized world of artificial wants and needs that Huxley predicted, a moving study of brotherhood and family failure, F is an astonishing book, a work of deeply satisfying (and never merely ..."
Tyll by DanielKehlmann Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2020 by Riverrun ISBN-13: 978-1-5294-0365-7, ISBN: 1-5294-0365-0
"'A masterly achievement, a work of imaginative grandeur and complete artistic control' Ian McEwan'Brilliant and unputdownable' Salman RushdieHe's a trickster, a player, a jester. His handshake's like a pact with the devil, his smile like a crack in the clouds; he's watching you now and he's gone when you turn. Tyll Ulenspiegel is here!In a village like every other village in Germany, a scrawny boy balances on a rope between two trees. H ..."
Tyll(Reprint) A Novel (Paperback) by DanielKehlmann, Ross Benjamin Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2021 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York ISBN-13: 978-0-525-56272-6, ISBN: 0-525-56272-9
"Nele points to Gottfried , whose lips are moving as he writes in his little book . The
pencil in his hand ... Pirmin chuckles , his lips twisting , his thick , moist tongue
again becoming visible in the corner of his mouth . Nele is loath to travel with him
..."
Christmas Eve (Paperback Or Softback) by DanielKehlmann Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2017 by Faber & Faber Plays 2017-10-19 ISBN-13: 978-0-571-34525-0, ISBN: 0-571-34525-5
"Incriminating evidence has been found against her. Or has it? Is a terrorist attack imminent or is this a case of state paranoia? The clock ticks. Played out in real time, this riveting thriller pits two powerful antagonists head to head."
Fame(1st Edition) A Novel in Nine Stories by DanielKehlmann, Carol Brown Janeway Paperback, 202 Pages, Published 2011 by Quercus ISBN-13: 978-1-84916-378-1, ISBN: 1-84916-378-2
"Imagine being famous. Being recognised on the street, adored by people who have never even met you, known the world over, wouldn't that be great? But what if, one day, you got stuck in a country where no one spoke your language and you didn't speak theirs. Where no one knew your face and you had no way of contacting your home and family. How would your fame help you then? What would happen if someone got hold of your mobile phone? If th ..."
"... his novel Measuring the World became an instant best seller in sev- eral European countries, selling more than 1.5 million copies. Kehlmann lives in Vienna and Berlin. a note about the translator Carol Brown Janeway's translations include."
Measuring the World(Reprint) (Paperback) by DanielKehlmann Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2007 by Riverrun ISBN-13: 978-1-84724-114-6, ISBN: 1-84724-114-X
"At the end of the eighteenth century, two brilliant and eccentric young scientists set out to measure the world. Alexander von Humboldt swashbuckled his way across the globe: navigating ocean and jungle, eating with cannibals, swimming with electric eels, lowering himself into volcanoes and scaling the highest mountain known to man. Carl Friedrich Gauss, on the other hand, stayed at home, using the power of thought to battle his way int ..."
Tyll Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020 (Paperback) by DanielKehlmann Paperback, Published 2021 by Quercus Publishing, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-1-5294-0367-1, ISBN: 1-5294-0367-7
TYLL by DanielKehlmann Hardcover, Published 2020 by Riverrun ISBN-13: 978-1-5294-0849-2, ISBN: 1-5294-0849-0
"From the internationally acclaimed author of "Measuring the World," here is a dazzling tragicomedy about the three sons of a lost father. Arthur Friedland is a wannabe writer who one day takes his sons to a performance by the Great Lindemann, Master of Hypnosis. Arthur declares himself immune to hypnosis and a disbeliever in magic. But the Great Lindemann knows better, and after he extracts Arthur s deepest secrets and tells him to make ..."
F A Novel by DanielKehlmann, Carol Brown Janeway Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2014 by Quercus ISBN-13: 978-1-84866-734-1, ISBN: 1-84866-734-5
"'A comic tour de force, a biting satire on the hypnotized world of artificial wants and needs that Huxley predicted, a moving study of brotherhood and family failure, F is an astonishing book, a work of deeply satisfying (and never merely clever) complexity' - John Burnside Artful and subversive, F tells the story of the Friedland family - fakers, all of them - and the day when the fate in which they don't quite believe catches up with ..."
"This publication accompanies the first U.S. museum exhibition of a selection of paintings by the Argentinean artist Guillermo Kuitca, made from 2005 to the present. Since 1994, Kuitca has taken failed and discarded canvases, stretched them over an abandoned table from his parents' garden, and then spent periods of time ranging from three to six months creating intentional and accidental doodles, drawings and recordings on their surfaces ..."
"Sebastian Zollner is set on writing the biography of the painter Manuel Kaminski. Yet Kaminski - once a pupil of Matisse, now an ailing recluse - is not the kind of character to willingly embrace such a project. And Zollner - inept, charmless, and with scant knowledge of art history - is hardly the man to undertake it. So it's a good job Sebastian has an ace up his sleeve, and that Kaminski will have little choice in the matter..."
""Measuring the World" recreates the parallel but contrasting lives of two geniuses of the German Enlightenment - the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss. Towards the end of the 18th century, these two brilliant young Germans set out to measure the world. Humboldt, a Prussian aristocrat schooled for greatness, negotiates savannah and jungle, travels down the Orinoco, cli ..."
"Measuring the World marks the debut of a glorious new talent on the international scene. Young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann’s brilliant comic novel revolves around the meeting of two colossal geniuses of the Enlightenment. Late in the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world. One of them, the aristocratic naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, negotiates jungles, voyages down the Orinoco River, tastes poison ..."
"Sebastian Zollner is searching for his big break. A failure as a journalist, a boyfriend, and a human being, he sets out to write the essential biography of the eccentric painter Manuel Kaminski. All he needs to do is ingratiate himself into Kaminski s family, wait for him to kick the bucket, and then reap the rewards. There s only one problem. Kaminski has an agenda of his own, an agenda that will send them on a wild-goose chase to pla ..."
Tyll A Novel by DanielKehlmann, Ross Benjamin Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2020 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-1-5247-4746-6, ISBN: 1-5247-4746-7
"From the internationally best-selling author of You Should Have Left, Measuring the World, and F, a return to historical fiction in this transfixing retelling of the German myth of Tyll Eulenspiegel--a story about the devastation of war and a beguiling artist's decision never to die.Daniel Kehlmann masterfully weaves the fates of many historical figures into this enchanting and picturesque book of magical realism and adventure. It is th ..."
Tyll by DanielKehlmann 352 Pages, Published 2020 by Hachette Uk ISBN-13: 978-1-5294-0368-8, ISBN: 1-5294-0368-5
"His handshake's like a pact with the devil, his smile like a crack in the clouds; he's watching you now and he's gone when you turn. Tyll Ulenspiegel is here!"
Tyll A Novel by DanielKehlmann 336 Pages, Published 2020 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-1-5247-4747-3, ISBN: 1-5247-4747-5
"Tine Krugmann next to her nudged her and pointed to her right foot, but Martha
shook her head, and Tyll Ulenspiegel on the rope took another leap, striking his
... Then the next shoe flew, it was Susanne Schopf's, and then the next, and then
..."