F : Roman

ISBN-13: 9783499249273 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2018 / 384 str.

Daniel Kehlmann

Opis

From the internationally acclaimed author of "Measuring the World," a dazzling tragicomedy about the three sons of a lost father.
Arthur Friedland is a dilettante, a wannabe writer who one day takes his sons to a performance by the Great Lindemann, Master of Hypnosis. Arthur declares himself immune to hypnosis and a disbeliever in magic. But the Great Lindemann knows better, and after he extracts Arthur's deepest secrets and tells him to make them real, Arthur empties the family bank account and vanishes. He goes on to become a world-famous author, a master of the mystical. (F is for fake.) But what of his abandoned boys? The painfully shy Martin grows up to be a priest without a vocation. (F is for faith, and lack of it.) Eric becomes a financier on the brink of ruin (F is for fraud), while Ivan, hoping for glory as a painter, instead becomes a forger. (F is for forgery, too.) During the summer before the global financial crisis, all are thrown together again with cataclysmic results. Wildly funny and heartbreaking, Daniel Kehlmann's novel about truth, family, and the terrible power of fortune is a fictional triumph.

Recenzje

Beeindruckend, wie «F» mit jeder Veränderung der Perspektive an Rasanz und Dichte gewinnt. So nah kamen sich philosophischer Roman und Pageturner noch nie. Die Welt

O autorze

Daniel Kehlmann, 1975 in München geboren, wurde für sein Werk unter anderem mit dem Candide-Preis, dem Per-Olov-Enquist-Preis, dem Kleist-Preis, dem Thomas-Mann-Preis und dem Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis ausgezeichnet. Sein Roman Die Vermessung der Welt war eines der erfolgreichsten deutschen Bücher der Nachkriegszeit, und auch sein Roman Tyll stand monatelang auf den Bestsellerlisten und gelangte auf die Shortlist des International Booker Prize. Daniel Kehlmann lebt in Berlin.