His novel Me and Kaminski (also published in the US), about a petty journalist who hopes to become the biographer of the painter Kaminski, is a better novel than Measuring the World but not too many critics noticed this. In a review on Measuring the World Tom LeClair wrote in The New York Times Book Review that Kehlman ícan measure the woes of failing bodies and flailing minds, no small achievement for a man of 31.ë The English newspaper The Guardian wrote in an article about Kehlmann: íFor decades German fiction has enjoyed the reputation of being serious, worthy and a bit dull.ë This is a bit of an exaggeration there are even within the last few decades quite a few German authors who have not been very serious, and sometimes not even dull.īesides this, is being serious really a crime in literature? Whether serious or not, Kehlmann is hailed as the new ambassador of German literature. His historical novel Die Vermessung der Welt (published in the US by Vintage as Measuring the World) sold more than 1.4 million copies in Germany alone. Daniel Kehlmann (born in 1975) is the star of German literature.
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