Me and Kaminski by Daniel Kehlmann
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 Statesman Sebastian 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.
Very funny.. Sparkling and consistently amusing comedy, by turns broad and sophisticated * Daily Telegraph *
'The novel barrels along like a top-of-the-range BMW on a deserted autobahn ... The comedy has a touching, tender precision' * Independent *
An accessible and humorous road trip into the worlds of art and journalism, satirising both * New Statesman *
'Witty, shrewd and smartly translated ... Delightful' * Guardian *
'The novel barrels along like a top-of-the-range BMW on a deserted autobahn ... The comedy has a touching, tender precision' * Independent *
An accessible and humorous road trip into the worlds of art and journalism, satirising both * New Statesman *
'Witty, shrewd and smartly translated ... Delightful' * Guardian *
Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich in 1975 and lives in Vienna, Berlin and New York. He has published six novels: Measuring the World, Me & Kaminski, Fame, F, You Should Have Left and Tyll and has won numerous prizes, including the Candide Prize, the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Doderer Prize, The Kleist Prize, the WELT Literature Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize. Measuring the World was translated into more than forty languages and is one of the biggest successes in post-war German literature.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847249890 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847249892 |
| Title | Me and Kaminski |
| Author | Daniel Kehlmann |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Quercus Publishing |
| Year published | 2009-09-03 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
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