Books by Daniel Kehlmann
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review 1: Kehlmann is een virtuoze plotconstructeur die mij een beetje doet denken aan wat de Mexicaanse regisseur Iñárritu voor mekaar kreeg in zijn films "Amores Perros" en "Babel": het op ingenieuze manier verbinden van levensverhalen die schijnbaar niets met mekaar te maken hebben. Di...
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review 1: Melancholic and funny, in structure as well as story and characters. (Somehow, Kehlmann pulls off that hat trick.) About fate and accident, slippage between people and between their stories, in this story, from alternating POVs, of twin brothers and a third half-brother and the d...
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review 1: Wanted to give this 4 stars as it was really brilliant how the author questioned the nature of the story..but yet..something was slightly amiss, it was too mechanical for me at times, perhaps this was intentional or could be because of bad translation. I particularly enjoyed the...
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review 1: “Stories within stories within stories. You never know where one ends and another begins! In truth, they all flow into one another. It’s only in books that they’re clearly divided.” But: in this book they are not clearly divided. They are linked with recurring characters and situ...
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review 1: Ein intellektueller Selbstmörder, eine lebende Romanfigur und ein verzweifelter Bigamist sind nur ein kleiner Bruchteil der Charaktere, die Kehlmann durch die Welt ziehen und interagieren lässt. Nicht unbedingt miteinander aber mit maßgeblichen Berührungspunkten.Das in 9 Kurzgesc...
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review 1: This is Escher meets Borges. What a delight. Each of the stories had a startling view of a person's essence. In one story a famous actor/director gets tired of his fame and tries to find his way free of his persona. He goes to a club with impersonators and waches someone imperson...
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review 1: A father walks out on his family to become a writer and his 3 very different sons grow up. An overweight priest who struggles with his faith and a Rubiks cube, a talented art forger who rewrites art history, and a paranoid financier who tries to cope with failure. Contemporary mo...