Daniel Kehlmann

La novela alemana de mayor xito desde El Perfume, traducida a m s de 40 idiomas y con m s de 6 millones de ejemplares vendidos en todo el mundo. Pr logo de Juan Gabriel V squez. «La medici n del mundo, adem s de una suerte de picaresca desopilante, es una brillante reflexi n sobre la ficci n, el pasado y la manera como lo contamos: una reflexi n, en fin, sobre lo que hacemos cuando inventamos ficci n, en particular sobre el pasado . Juan Gabriel V squez Ciencia y literatura se dan la mano en esta novela inteligentemente entretejida en la que Daniel Kehlmann, uno de los autores m s importantes de la literatura alemana contempor nea, resucita las fascinantes personalidades de dos eruditos: Alexander von Humboldt y Carl Friedrich Gauss. A finales del siglo XVIII, estos dos j venes alemanes se embarcaron en la descomunal empresa de medir el mundo. Alexander von Humboldt, un naturalista, viajero y aventurero empedernido de inagotable curiosidad, explor nuestro planeta y se abri paso por las selvas y estepas, naveg por el Orinoco y prob toda clase de venenos. Carl Friedrich Gauss, un hombre nacido en la pobreza y posteriormente reconocido como el m s importante matem tico desde Newton, era capaz de abandonar el lecho conyugal en plena noche nupcial para anotar una f rmula matem tica. En 1828, ya mayores, estos dos genios de la Ilustraci n alemana se reencuentran en Berl n, donde evocan juntos los a os de su juventud y aventuras pasadas. La medici n del mundo, el mayor best seller en lengua alemana despu s de El perfume, ampliamente galardonada y traducida a m s de 40 idiomas, es una novela que se distingue por un humor sutil y una fina iron a, pero tambi n por una caracterizaci n de los personajes, una amenidad y un encanto inolvidables. En lugar de ensalzar a estos personajes hist ricos, el autor nos muestra estos genios exc ntricos en todas sus facetas: con sus grandezas y sus errores, sus peque as man as y sus debilidades y anhelos, entre la soledad y el amor, el fracaso y el xito, y consigue de este modo un retrato humano in dito, lleno de luces y de sombras. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION 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. Toward the end of the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world. One of them, the Prussian aristocrat Alexander von Hum-boldt, negotiates savanna and jungle, travels down the Orinoco, tastes poisons, climbs the highest mountain known to man, counts head lice, and explores every hole in the ground. The other, the barely socialized mathematician and astronomer Carl Friedrich Gauss, does not even need to leave his home in G ttingen to prove that space is curved. He can run prime numbers in his head. He cannot imagine a life without women, yet he jumps out of bed on his wedding night to jot down a mathematical formula. Von Humboldt is known to history as the Second Columbus. Gauss is recognized as the greatest mathematical brain since Newton. Terrifyingly famous and more than eccentric in their old age, the two meet in Berlin in 1828. Gauss has hardly climbed out of his carriage before both men are embroiled in the political turmoil sweeping through Germany after Napoleon's fall. Already a huge best seller in Germany, Measuring the World marks the debut of a glorious new talent on the international scene.

Sebastian Zöller er en ung skribent, der vil skrive den store maler Manuel Kaminskis biografi, inden hans død. Zöller overhører enhver afvisning og skyr ingen midler. Da det lykkes at lokke Kaminski med på en udflugt for to, går det op for Zöller, at han på ingen måde er den gamle mand voksen... I roman ‘Jeg og Kaminski’ skriver Daniel Kehlmann om mænd med store egoer, og i modsætning til ‘Opmålingen af verden’ er det denne gang om mænd af nutiden. Det er en utrolig morsom fortælling om livsløgne og manipulation, moral og kunst.

Daniel Kehlmanns fantastiske kortroman Du skulle være gået fortæller historien om et ungt par med et lille barn, der kort før jul lejer et afsidesliggende feriehus i bjergene. Meningen er, at de skal nyde højtiden i de dejlig omgivelser, men opholdet udvikler sig til noget helt andet. Er det huset eller spændingerne i relationen mellem parret, der gør, at en knugende og uhyggelig stemning indfinder sig? Daniel Kehlmann er en sublim skildrer af det, der sker mellem mennesker.

18. sajandi lõpul asuvad kaks noort sakslast maailma mõõtma. Üks neist, Alexander von Humboldt, rändab läbi ürgmetsa, maitseb mürki, roomab koobastes, tõuseb vulkaanidele, kohtub merekoletiste ja inimsööjatega. Neist teine, matemaatik ja astronoom Carl Friedrich Gauss, kes ei suuda elada ilma naisteta, aga ometi tõuseb isegi pulmaööl voodist, et üles märkida pähetorganud valem, vaatleb Göttingenis teleskoobiga taevakehi ning tõestab kodust lahkumata, et ruum kõverdub." Maailma mõõtmine" on maagilise realismi valdkonda kuuluv fiktiivne topeltbiograafia, milles autor kirjeldab sügavmõttelise huumoriga kahe geeniuse elu ning nende balansseerimist naeruväärsuse ja suuruse vahel. Daniel Kehlmann on saksa-austria kirjanik, kes avaldas esimese romaani juba 22-aastaselt, kuid läbimurre tuli 2003. aastal ilmunud kunstiromaaniga "Mina ja Kaminski" ning tõeline kuulsus saabus "Maailma mõõtmisega", mis eesti keeles ilmus esmakordselt 2008. aastal ning on enimmüüdud saksakeelne romaan pärast Patrick Süskindi "Parfüümi". 2019. aastal ilmus eesti keeles Kehlmanni romaan "Tyll", mis jutustab vagabund Tyll Ulenspiegelist.

German artist Neo Rauch, championed as “the painter of the zeitgeist” by The New York Times’s Roberta Smith, presents new paintings 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 to a single story. Though his art is highly refined and executed with great technical skill, Rauch himself stresses the intuitive, deeply personal nature of how he works. As the artist notes, “My process is far less a reflection than it is drawing from the sediments of my past, which occurs in an almost trance-like state.” Eight large-scale canvases and seven smaller, more intimately scaled works continue the artist’s exploration of figuration and the ambiguous nature of meaning in visual art. In some of the larger works, the saturation of the canvas with characters, objects, and, forms, all rendered at different scales and in conflicting arrangements, creates a collage-like quality—a figurative scrapbook of Rauch’s personal iconography. The publication features a short story by German novelist and playwright Daniel Kehlmann, which was inspired by the paintings in this book. The fantastical text moves between present-day New York and an unknown time of enchanted forests, knights, and witches, exploring the many layers found in Rauch’s canvases. Published on the occasion of the artist’s solo exhibition at David Zwirner, Hong Kong in 2019, Neo Rauch: PROPAGANDA is available in both English only and bilingual English/traditional Chinese editions.

FINALISTA DEL PREMIO MAN BOOKER INTERNACIONAL 2020 Una novela monumental sobre un loco ilustre de la tradici n literaria europea. Daniel Kehlmann firma con Tyll una entretenida novela pica de aventuras y una gran historia sobre el poder del arte y la devastaci n de la guerra. Daniel Kehlmann reinventa la novela hist rica con esta biograf a ficcionada de un personaje legendario del folclore alem n: Tyll Ulenspiegel. Vagabundo, artista y provocador, naci en el a o 1600 en un ambiente de pobreza y violencia. Siendo ni o, descubre su habilidad para entretener a la gente, el funambulismo y hacer malabares. Su padre, un molinero que es tambi n mago, empirista y curandero, levanta las sospechas de los jesuitas y es acusado de brujer a. Tyll se ve obligado a escapar junto a Nele, la hija del panadero. Empieza as un viaje a trav s de un pa s devastado por la Guerra de los Treinta A os en el que Kehlmann teje con maestr a una red de destinos conectados, un elenco de personajes fascinantes que protagonizan esta epopeya monumental y c mica. Entre otros, un joven escritor que desea descubrir c mo es realmente la guerra, un verdugo melanc lico, un burro que habla, un m dico poeta, un jesuita fan tico, un sabio que falsific los resultados de sus experimentos cient ficos y Federico V e Isabel de Estuardo, los gobernantes exiliados de Bohemia cuyos errores desataron la guerra. Con esta fusi n de ficci n hist rica, picaresca y realismo m gico que se lee como un entretenido libro pico 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

"Fremragende ... Skarpt set og stærkt skrevet." Berlingske "Daniel Kehlmann, tysk litteraturs unge stjerne, har skrevet en overraskende og suveræn roman om grænsen mellem løgn og sandhed i mobiltelefonens tidsalder." Politiken Den berømte skuespiller hvis liv bliver overtaget af en dobbeltgænger, internetbloggeren uden situationsfornemmelse, den gamle dame der søger aktiv dødshjælp, afdelingslederen med det opslidende dobbeltliv, og forfatteren som transformerer alt omkring sig til litteratur. Deres veje krydses, handlingen tager uforudsigelige drejninger og bevæger sig imellem episoder af virkelighed og det pureste opspind.

Now a Major Motion Picture From the internationally bestselling author of Measuring the World and F, an eerie and supernatural tale of a writer's emotional collapse A screenwriter, his wife, and their four-year old daughter rent a house in the mountains of Germany, but something isn't right. As he toils on a sequel to his most successful movie, the screenwriter notices that rooms aren't where he remembers them--and finds in his notebook words that are not his own.