副标题: A Novel
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作者:DanielKehlmann
出版时间:2008-11-18
书籍简介:
From the internationally best-selling author Daniel Kehlmann, a provocative and wickedly funny novel about two unpredictable men–one an artist and the other a journalist, who together embark on an unexpected adventure with uproarious results.
Sebastian Zollner’s failure as a journalist is matched only by his personal failures: his girlfriend is moving in a new lover before Sebastian even knows he’s been dumped. Searching for the break that will redeem him in the eyes of his peers, he heads off on a wild goose chase into the mountains to interview the eccentric, legendary painter Manuel Kaminski, with the hope of writing his biography.
Kaminski is going blind and is living in seclusion with his daughter. He could be working on his next masterpiece or easing into his final days, and his inconsistent career raises the question of whether he has been a fraud or a genius. His artistic reputation hinges on any number of factors but most prominently on a definitive biography. Enter Zollner–who has no intention of writing a puff piece. He’s out to dig dirt and to force Kaminski to confront the legacy of his work. But the secrets he uncovers will lead Kaminski, and Zollner himself, to places neither of them ever expected to go.
With edgy wit and intelligence, Daniel Kehlmann dives into the problems of what is “truth” in our celebrity-crazed times and embraces the energy and humanity that lie beneath the pretensions of the art and journalistic worlds. A firecracker of a novel.
作者简介:
丹尼尔• 凯尔曼，德国作家，评论家。1975年出生于慕尼黑,后考入维也纳大学，攻读哲学与德国文学。1997年出版第一本小说《贝尔宏姆的想象》。2003年，小说《我与卡明斯基》为他赢得世界声誉。2005年，刚满30岁的他出版《丈量世界》。该书被译为40多种语言，销量突破200万册，被誉为“二战”后德语文学最伟大的成就之一。2006年，丹尼尔• 凯尔曼凭借本书获克莱斯特文学奖。2008年获托马斯•曼文学奖。
