![]() ![]() Whether performing as part of a traveling troupe or as a court jester, there's an aura about him that bewitches people of all walks of life. In Daniel Kehlmann's novel, Tyll Ulenspiegel is a legendary entertainer, renowned for his irreverence and almost superhuman skills at awing an audience. Translated from the German by Ross Benjamin Tyll displays Kehlmann’s remarkable narrative gifts and confirms the power of art in the face of the senseless brutality of history. And so begins a journey of discovery and performance for Tyll, as he travels through a continent devastated by the Thirty Years’ War and encounters along the way a hangman, a fraudulent Jesuit scholar, and the exiled King Frederick and Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia. They find safety and companionship with a traveling performer, who teaches Tyll his trade. When his father, a miller with a secret interest in alchemy and magic, is found out by the church, Tyll is forced to flee with the baker’s daughter, Nele. ![]() ![]() This account of the 17th-century vagabond performer and trickster Tyll Ulenspiegel begins when he’s a scrawny boy growing up in a quiet village. ![]() From the internationally best-selling author of You Should Have Left, Measuring the World, and F, a transfixing retelling of the German myth of Tyll Ulenspiegel: a story about the devastation of war and a beguiling artist’s decision never to dieĭaniel Kehlmann masterfully weaves the fates of many historical figures into this enchanting work of magical realism and adventure. ![]()
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