Daniel Kehlmann, Mahlers Zeit [Mahler’s Time]

Patricia Simpson (Montana State University Bozeman)

Ed. by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1999

Places

Germany (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

In his second novel, Mahlers Zeit [Mahler’s Time, 1999], Daniel Kehlmann portrays a young physicist, David Mahler, whose genius blurs with madness. Reviewers generally praise Kehlmann’s accomplished, precise prose and the strength of story in his works. Kehlmann’s novels, including his best-known Die Vermessung der Welt [Measuring the World, 2005], explore the psyches of ambitious minds that try to impose scientific understanding on the natural world; or, conversely, attempt to unlock and appropriate the secrets of nature with occult attempts to overcome nature’s laws, as in Beerholms Vorstellung [Beerholm’s …

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Citation: Simpson, Patricia. "Mahlers Zeit". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 June 2008 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=21935, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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