Der fernste Ort
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Der fernste Ort / Der fernste Ort
Julian, a young man dissatisfied with himself and his job at an insurance firm, uses a swimming accident to use his escape. Being presumed dead seems like his ultimate chance. Once more, he recalls his past: his childhood, the strenuous efforts to hold his own next to his highly gifted brother, the disintegration of his family, and the attempts at overcoming his own mediocracy that failed time and time again.
Now, suddenly, tempting new possibilities seem within...
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Julian, a young man dissatisfied with himself and his job at an insurance firm, uses a swimming accident to use his escape. Being presumed dead seems like his ultimate chance. Once more, he recalls his past: his childhood, the strenuous efforts to hold his own next to his highly gifted brother, the disintegration of his family, and the attempts at overcoming his own mediocracy that failed time and time again.
Now, suddenly, tempting new possibilities seem within reach; he can make a fresh start of it. But the circumstances pose unexpected difficulties: events from his past surface in Julian’s present, reality becomes increasingly equivocal. Maybe all of this is just a dream? And if so – what kind of dream? In the end, he boards a train that is supposed to take him out of his home town and into freedom.
Daniel Kehlmann tells the story of an attempted escape from day-to-day life. Can a person escape his existence, is it possible to be someone other than who you’ve been? The author ingeniously intertwines this question with a story that is full of suspense up until the last page.
2001, 152 pages
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Daniel Kehlmann
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Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich in 1975 as the son of director Michael Kehlmann and actress Dagmar Mettler. In 1981 the family moved to Vienna, where Kehlmann went to school at the Kollegium Kalksburg and went on to study philosophy and German literature at Vienna University. His novel Ich und Kaminski, adapted for the screen, was an international success, the novel Die Vermessung der Welt, translated into 46 languages and also made into a movie, is one of the most successful books of post-war Germany. Daniel Kehlmann lives in Vienna and Berlin. He is the member of the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature and of the German Academy for Language and Literature.
Daniel Kehlmann
Author
Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich in 1975 as the son of director Michael Kehlmann and actress Dagmar Mettler. In 1981 the family moved to Vienna,...
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