![]() ![]() "Daniel Kehlmann''s Tyll is a laugh-out-loud-then-weep-into-your-beer comic novel about a war. Translated from the German by Ross Benjamin This begins a journey of discovery and performance for Tyll as he travels through a world devastated by the Thirty Year's War, and encountering along the way a young scholar, a hangman, the German poet Paul Fleming, a fraudulent Jesuit scholar, and the exiled royal couple Elizabeth and Frederick of Bohemia among many others-building his sardonic reputation all the while. They find safety and companionship with a traveling performer who teaches Tyll his trade. When his father, a miller with an interest in alchemy and magic, is found out by the church, Tyll is forced to flee with the baker's daughter, Nele. We meet him as a scrawny boy growing up in a quiet village. ![]() ![]() It is the story of the 17th century vagabond performer and trickster Tyll Ulenspiegel that begins before he is enshrined in rumors and myths. Daniel Kehlmann masterfully weaves the fates of many historical figures into this enchanting and picturesque book of magical realism and adventure. From the internationally best-selling author of You Should Have Left, Measuring the World, and F, a return to historical fiction in this transfixing retelling of the German myth of Tyll Eulenspiegel-a story about the devastation of war and a beguiling artist's decision never to die. ![]()
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