Vielleicht ist dies das herausragendste Buch zum Lutherjahr.
"(E)in Meisterstück (.) Was ist das nur für ein unerschöpfliches Buch und was für ein grossartiger Stoff. It’s intricate and cleverly done, but not entirely satisfying" - Anthony Cummins, The Guardian (.) Constructed as a string of disconnected, slyly contradictory vignettes, the fable-like narrative darts airily around with vivid detail and neat comic timing, treating the cast, and our attention, as playthings. 
"Like recent Black Death novels by James Meek and Oisín Fagan, Kehlmann’s portrait of bygone dark times both indulges and disrupts the apocalyptic turn in present-day commentary on current affairs. (.) Kehlmann renders this world with an extraordinarily delicate and vivid touch, fixing on just those details that seem to capture the differences from our own (.) Tyll is a very funny novel, too (.) It’s a testament to Kehlmann’s immense talent that he has succeeded in writing a powerful and accessible book about a historical period that is so complicated and poorly understood." - Marcel Theroux, The Guardian He also toys with sly literary allusions. Kehlmann will dramatise the same events from different viewpoints, giving us slightly different information each time, and showing how memory and self-interest obscure the truth of history. 
"It’s only on careful inspection that you see how cunningly each episode fits with the others. (.) Kehlmann’s own graceful sleight-of-hand makes past and present, myth and history, merge." - Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times (.) Kehlmann’s "Liz" is a memorable creation: shrewd, sad, resourceful and dignified. Like a magician plucking an egg from an empty palm, Kehlmann summons comedy, farce, wisecracking badinage, even romance, from this blighted time.", across years of massacre, starvation, epidemic, torture and pillage. Tyll and his companions dance, juggle and blag their way through "the never-ending landscape of the war. He has, though, a genial lightness all his own. 
"In this robust, flavourful translation by Ross Benjamin, Kehlmann often matches the visceral quality of Grass’s prose.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the authorī+ : a bit loose in its presentation, but thoroughly engaging Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs.
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