Kirjailija
Daniel Kehlmann
Kirjat ja teokset yhdessä paikassa: 88 kirjaa, julkaisuja vuosilta 1998–2026, suosituimpiin kuuluu Ohjaaja. Vertaile teosten hintoja ja tarkista saatavuus suomalaisista kirjakaupoista.
88 kirjaa
Kirjojen julkaisuvuodet: 1998–2026.
It's Christmas Eve, 2017. A philosophy professor is on her way to celebrate with her family when she is hauled out of a taxi and bundled into an interrogation room. Opposite her, the senior officer is cynical, smart and relentless. 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. Both think they are saving their country. Only one of them will win. Daniel Kehlmann's Christmas Eve , translated by Christopher Hampton, premiered at the Ustinov Theatre, Bath, in October 2017.
A thrilling exploration of psychological disturbance and fear from the bestselling and prize-winning author of Measuring the World.*Now a major film starring Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried*On retreat in the wintry Alps with his family, a writer is optimistic about completing the sequel to his breakthrough film. Nothing to disturb him except the wind whispering around their glassy house. The perfect place to focus. Intruding on that peace of mind, the demands of his four-year-old daughter splinter open long-simmering arguments with his wife. I love her, he writes in the notebook intended for his script. Why do we fight all the time? Guilt and expectation strain at his concentration, and strain, too, at the walls of the house. They warp under his watch; at night, looking through the window, he sees impossible reflections on the snow outside. Then the words start to appear in his notebook; the words he didn't write. Familiar and forbidding by turns, this is an electrifying experiment in form by one of Europe's boldest writers. The ordinary struggles of a marriage transform, in Kehlmann's hands, into a twisted fable that stays darkly in the mind.
Benjamin Rubin is a cantankerous old writer, whisky aficionado and pedant, still basking in the reflected glory of long-ago success. Martin Wegner is a rising young literary star, heralded as 'the voice of his generation'. When Martin is given the opportunity to develop his new play under the mentorship of his idol, the writers meet in a dilapidated art-nouveau villa somewhere in the German countryside. Two massive egos are set on a collision course in this perceptive and compelling comedy about art and artists and the legacy of fame. Christopher Hampton's translation of The Mentor by Daniel Kehlmann premiered at the Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath, in April 2017.
"Læsefryd og tankeguf ? en fantastisk roman." Politiken 6 stjerner i Jyllands-Posten To unge tyskere rejser i slutningen af det 18. århundrede ud for at opmåle verden. Den ene, Alexander von Humboldt, kæmper sig gennem urskov og stepper, besejler Orinoco, afprøver gifte på sin egen krop, tæller de indfødtes hovedlus, kryber ned i huller i jorden, bestiger vulkaner og møder søuhyrer og menneskeædere. Den anden, matematikeren og astronomen Carl Friedrich Gauss, der ikke kan eksistere uden kvinder og alligevel endda på sin bryllupsnat springer ud af sengen for at notere en formel ned - han beviser også hjemme i Göttingen, at rummet er krumt. I 1828, da de begge er blevet gamle, berømte og en smule excentriske, mødes de i Berlin. Men næppe er Gauss steget ud af sin karet, før de bliver dybt involveret i den politiske uro i Tyskland efter Napoleons fald.
Die Vermessung der Welt - Das Buch zum Film
Daniel Kehlmann
ROWOHLT TASCHENBUCH VERLAG GMBH
2012
pokkari
Fame and facelessness, truth and deception, spin their way through the nine interlocking chapters of this captivating and wickedly funny novel by the internationally bestselling author of Measuring the World. No one is more surprised than Ebling when his new cell phone begins receiving calls meant for popular actor Ralf Tanner. At first he tries to set the callers right, but soon he is enjoying the drama and power that celebrity brings. Little does he know that his actions will cause a ripple effect that will leave very few lives untouched, from the movie star himself to those lingering at the edges of the limelight. And as paths cross and plots thicken, the boundaries of fiction and reality start to crumble.
Imagine being famous. Wouldn't that be great?'A real beauty of a book' - Jonathan Franzen'Riffs echo through this playful, perplexing landscape' - The Times But what if, one day, you got stuck in a country where no one spoke your language. Where no one knew your face and you had no way of contacting home. How would your fame help you then? What would happen if someone got hold of your mobile phone? If they spoke to your girlfriends, your agent, your director and started making decisions for you. And when no one believed that you were you any more, when you saw a lookalike acting your roles for you, what would you do? In this delightfully entertaining book, Daniel Kehlmann throws his characters into situations that are thrilling, funny, surprising and tragic, confirming his place as one of his generation's finest writers.
Monet kirjan henkilöistä ovat jossain määrin tunnettuja, enemmän tai vähemmän julkkiksia, ja identiteetti - sen salaaminen, muokkaaminen, kadottaminen tai säilyttäminen - on kirjassa keskeinen teema. Kirja käsittelee myös modernin tekniikan vaikutuksia kommunikaatioon. Mitä tapahtuu, kun tekniikka ei toimikaan? Maine on romaani, joka koostuu yhdeksästä kertomuksesta. Tarinat kietoutuvat ja limittyvät toisiinsa monin tavoin: yhden kertomuksen sivuhenkilö voi olla toisen päähenkilö. Teoksessa voi nähdä myös ironisen viittauksen Kehlmannin omaan huikeaan menestykseen, johon hän ylsi romaanillaan Maailman mittaajat (Perhemediat, 2007). Teos ilmestyy Tammen pokkarina keväällä 2011.
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 places neither of them ever expected to go. Told with Nabokovian wit and an edgy intelligence, Me and Kaminski is a shrewd send-up of art and journalistic pretensions from the internationally acclaimed author of Measuring the World.
A wryly comic account of a career in meltdown, from the author of Measuring the World'An accessible and humorous road trip into the worlds of art and journalism, satirising both' - New StatesmanSebastian 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... Half road novel, half satire on the contemporary art scene, Kaminski and Me is a wryly humorous meditation on art, memory, and identity.
abgeliefert 05.07.06
? Ein Fall von früher Meisterschaft? (Abendzeitung) Ein kleiner Angestellter kommt ebenso überraschend wie unverdient zu sehr viel Geld. Ein Junge findet in zielloser Gewalt den einzigen Ausweg aus der Langeweile der Sommerferien. Ein poetischer Elektriker schildert seine Passion: das Anzünden von Häusern.... Daniel Kehlmanns Geschichten erzählen von Menschen, die sich in der Alltäglichkeit ihres Daseins nach einem Ereignis sehnen, das ihr Leben verändert. Geschickt aufgebaute Spannung und subtile Ironie machen die Lektüre zu einem abgründigen Vergnügen.