FINALISTA DEL PREMIO MAN BOOKER INTERNACIONAL 2020 Una novela monumental sobre un loco ilustre de la tradición literaria europea. Daniel Kehlmann firma con Tyll una entretenida novela épica de aventuras y una gran historia sobre el poder del arte y la devastación de la guerra. Daniel Kehlmann reinventa la novela histórica con esta biografía ficcionada de un personaje legendario del folclore alemán: Tyll Ulenspiegel. Vagabundo, artista y provocador, nació en el año 1600 en un ambiente de pobreza y violencia. Siendo niño, descubre su habilidad para entretener a la gente, el funambulismo y hacer malabares. Su padre, un molinero que es también mago, empirista y curandero, levanta las sospechas de los jesuitas y es acusado de brujería. Tyll se ve obligado a escapar junto a Nele, la hija del panadero. Empieza así un viaje a través de un país devastado por la Guerra de los Treinta Años en el que Kehlmann teje con maestría una red de destinos conectados, un elenco de personajes fascinantes que protagonizan esta epopeya monumental y cómica. Entre otros, un joven escritor que desea descubrir cómo es realmente la guerra, un verdugo melancólico, un burro que habla, un médico poeta, un jesuita fanático, un sabio que falsificó los resultados de sus experimentos científicos y Federico V e Isabel de Estuardo, los gobernantes exiliados de Bohemia cuyos errores desataron la guerra. Con esta fusión de ficción histórica, picaresca y realismo mágico que se lee como un entretenido libro épico de aventuras, Daniel Kehlmann ha sido comparado con Umberto Eco y se ha situado como el nuevo embajador de la literatura alemana. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE A major new novel by Daniel Kehlmann. The vagrant, actor, entertainer and provocateur Tyll Ulenspiegel is born in the early 1600s. Tyll’s father, a miller, is also a magician and explorer, and soon arouses the ire of the village churchmen. Tyll is forced to flee, accompanied by Nele, the baker’s daughter. During his travels through a country devastated by the Thirty Years’ War he meets both ordinary people and great souls. These include the young academic and writer Martin von Wolkenstein, who’s dying to find out what war is really like; the melancholic executioner Tilman; Pirmin, the juggler; Origines, the talking donkey; the exiled rulers of Bohemia, Elizabeth and Friedrich, whose mistakes sparked this great war; the doctor Paul Fleming, whose bizarre plan is to write poems in German; and, not least, the fanatical Jesuit Tesimond and Athanasius Kircher, the renowned sage whose biggest secret is that he forged the startling results of his scientific experiments. Their stories come together in a spellbinding narrative, and an epic re-imagining of the Thirty Years’ War. And who should this violent whirlwind envelop in its fury if not Tyll, the well-known prankster who one day decides to become immortal? “My favourite German novelist.” -Ian McEwan, Sunday Times
FINALISTA DEL PREMIO MAN BOOKER INTERNACIONAL 2020 Una novela monumental sobre un loco ilustre de la tradición literaria europea. Daniel Kehlmann firma con Tyll una entretenida novela épica de aventuras y una gran historia sobre el poder del arte y la devastación de la guerra. Daniel Kehlmann reinventa la novela histórica con esta biografía ficcionada de un personaje legendario del folclore alemán: Tyll Ulenspiegel. Vagabundo, artista y provocador, nació en el año 1600 en un ambiente de pobreza y violencia. Siendo niño, descubre su habilidad para entretener a la gente, el funambulismo y hacer malabares. Su padre, un molinero que es también mago, empirista y curandero, levanta las sospechas de los jesuitas y es acusado de brujería. Tyll se ve obligado a escapar junto a Nele, la hija del panadero. Empieza así un viaje a través de un país devastado por la Guerra de los Treinta Años en el que Kehlmann teje con maestría una red de destinos conectados, un elenco de personajes fascinantes que protagonizan esta epopeya monumental y cómica. Entre otros, un joven escritor que desea descubrir cómo es realmente la guerra, un verdugo melancólico, un burro que habla, un médico poeta, un jesuita fanático, un sabio que falsificó los resultados de sus experimentos científicos y Federico V e Isabel de Estuardo, los gobernantes exiliados de Bohemia cuyos errores desataron la guerra. Con esta fusión de ficción histórica, picaresca y realismo mágico que se lee como un entretenido libro épico de aventuras, Daniel Kehlmann ha sido comparado con Umberto Eco y se ha situado como el nuevo embajador de la literatura alemana. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE A major new novel by Daniel Kehlmann. The vagrant, actor, entertainer and provocateur Tyll Ulenspiegel is born in the early 1600s. Tyll’s father, a miller, is also a magician and explorer, and soon arouses the ire of the village churchmen. Tyll is forced to flee, accompanied by Nele, the baker’s daughter. During his travels through a country devastated by the Thirty Years’ War he meets both ordinary people and great souls. These include the young academic and writer Martin von Wolkenstein, who’s dying to find out what war is really like; the melancholic executioner Tilman; Pirmin, the juggler; Origines, the talking donkey; the exiled rulers of Bohemia, Elizabeth and Friedrich, whose mistakes sparked this great war; the doctor Paul Fleming, whose bizarre plan is to write poems in German; and, not least, the fanatical Jesuit Tesimond and Athanasius Kircher, the renowned sage whose biggest secret is that he forged the startling results of his scientific experiments. Their stories come together in a spellbinding narrative, and an epic re-imagining of the Thirty Years’ War. And who should this violent whirlwind envelop in its fury if not Tyll, the well-known prankster who one day decides to become immortal? “My favourite German novelist.” -Ian McEwan, Sunday Times
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Historical fiction and metaphysical satire take central stage in international German-language literature through inventive reimaginings of historical icons, scientific ambition, and folklore. The novelist and playwright Daniel Kehlmann achieved widespread recognition with Measuring the World, an inventive historical novel depicting the contrasting lives and methods of mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt.
Born in Munich on January 13, 1975, Daniel Kehlmann is the son of television director Michael Kehlmann and actress Dagmar Mettler. He moved with his parents to Vienna at age six, growing up in the city's 23rd district and obtaining dual German and Austrian citizenship. Kehlmann published his early literary works while completing his studies, quickly building an international readership. His breakout novel, Measuring the World (2005), became one of the most commercially and critically successful post-war German novels and was translated into more than forty languages. He continued publishing acclaimed fiction including Me and Kaminski, Fame, F, and The Director. In 2017, he published Tyll, translated into English by Ross Benjamin, which reimagined the folklore trickster Tyll Ulenspiegel against the backdrop of the Thirty Years' War and was shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize. Over his career, Kehlmann has been honored with major awards such as the Candide Prize, the Doderer Prize, the Kleist Prize, the WELT Literature Prize, the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, and the Thomas Mann Prize. He divides his time between Vienna, Berlin, and New York.
Kehlmann's prose is characterized by its blend of meticulous historical research, philosophical inquiries into truth, and dark, metafictional humor. His works frequently investigate the boundary between reality and fiction, the fallibility of memory, and the tragicomic limits of human reason. In works such as the 2016 psychological novella You Should Have Left, he utilizes elements of horror and spatial disorientation to trace a screenwriter's mental breakdown in an isolated mountain home. Across his historical novels and contemporary satires, his writing balances philosophical depth with accessible, swift narrative structure.
4 books in catalog
Historical fiction and metaphysical satire take central stage in international German-language literature through inventive reimaginings of historical icons, scientific ambition, and folklore. The novelist and playwright Daniel Kehlmann achieved widespread recognition with Measuring the World, an inventive historical novel depicting the contrasting lives and methods of mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt.
Born in Munich on January 13, 1975, Daniel Kehlmann is the son of television director Michael Kehlmann and actress Dagmar Mettler. He moved with his parents to Vienna at age six, growing up in the city's 23rd district and obtaining dual German and Austrian citizenship. Kehlmann published his early literary works while completing his studies, quickly building an international readership. His breakout novel, Measuring the World (2005), became one of the most commercially and critically successful post-war German novels and was translated into more than forty languages. He continued publishing acclaimed fiction including Me and Kaminski, Fame, F, and The Director. In 2017, he published Tyll, translated into English by Ross Benjamin, which reimagined the folklore trickster Tyll Ulenspiegel against the backdrop of the Thirty Years' War and was shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize. Over his career, Kehlmann has been honored with major awards such as the Candide Prize, the Doderer Prize, the Kleist Prize, the WELT Literature Prize, the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, and the Thomas Mann Prize. He divides his time between Vienna, Berlin, and New York.
Kehlmann's prose is characterized by its blend of meticulous historical research, philosophical inquiries into truth, and dark, metafictional humor. His works frequently investigate the boundary between reality and fiction, the fallibility of memory, and the tragicomic limits of human reason. In works such as the 2016 psychological novella You Should Have Left, he utilizes elements of horror and spatial disorientation to trace a screenwriter's mental breakdown in an isolated mountain home. Across his historical novels and contemporary satires, his writing balances philosophical depth with accessible, swift narrative structure.
