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Me and Kaminski

Me and Kaminski

by Carol Brown Janeway (Translator), Daniel Kehlmann (Author), Carol Brown Janeway (Translator), Daniel Kehlmann (Author)

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    Paperback 2009

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Synopsis

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.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 208
 Publisher: riverrun
Published: 03 Sep 2009
ISBN 10: 1847249892
ISBN 13: 9781847249890

Media Reviews
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 *
Author Bio
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 and You Should Have Left 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.