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OverviewIn the first of Fame's nine stories, the technician Ebling whose high point of the week is the Wiener Schnitzel on the office canteen menu, at last succumbs to the blandishments of the mobile phone and through an error is assigned the number of the actor Ralf Tanner. Soon he is taking Tanner's calls, making his decisions and talking to his girlfriends without any responsibility - with disastrous consequences. Other characters in Fame are the writers Leo Richter and the mortally ill Rosalie; we also see numerous staff of the mobile phone business, and even a thinly veiled version of a famous feelgood writer in his Rio Penthouse, with a gun in his mouth as he contemplates his valueless oeuvre, a title of which appears irritatingly in each chapter to console or infuriate. The main theme of the novel is switching identity amidst the effects of modern changing technology and the confusing game of deception played between reality and fiction. The characters fear obscurity, they dream of recognition and of being the inspiration for famous stories... Full Product DetailsAuthor: Daniel Kehlmann , Carol Brown Janeway , Carol Brown JanewayPublisher: Quercus Publishing Imprint: Quercus Publishing ISBN: 9781849163767ISBN 10: 1849163766 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 02 September 2010 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsVoices. In Danger. Rosalie Goes Off to Die. The Way Out. The East. Replying to the Abbess. A Contribution to the Debate. How I Lied and Died. In Danger.Reviews'Who would have thought contemporary Central European literature could be so fun and so funny? Daniel Kehlmann is who. The young Austrian prodigy has given us a real beauty of a book, farcical, satiric, melancholic, and humane. Modern fame may have been invented in America, but nobody has dramatized its paradoxes and heartbreaks more entertainingly than the European Kehlmann does here' Jonathan Franzen. 'Riffs echo through this playful, perplexing landscape' Times. 'Who would have thought contemporary Central European literature could be so fun and so funny? Daniel Kehlmann is who. The young Austrian prodigy has given us a real beauty of a book, farcical, satiric, melancholic, and humane. Modern fame may have been invented in America, but nobody has dramatized its paradoxes and heartbreaks more entertainingly than the European Kehlmann does here' Jonathan Franzen. Author InformationAuthor Website: http://www.kehlmann.com/Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich in 1975 and moved to Vienna in 1981, where he studied philosophy and literature at university. Fame is his sixth novel. Tab Content 6Author Website: http://www.kehlmann.com/Countries AvailableAll regions |
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