Die Vermessung der Welt

  • What a lucky find! – An intelligent, entertaining read, brilliantly written.
  • Kehlmann's most famous novel sold over 2,5 MIO copies in Germany! 
  • Translated into 50 foreign languages! 
  • One of the biggest successes in post-war German literature.

«Eine literarische Sensation.» (Guardian)
Mit hintergründigem Humor schildert Daniel Kehlmann das Leben zweier Genies: Alexander von Humboldt und Carl Friedrich Gauß. Er beschreibt ihre Sehnsüchte und Schwächen, ihre Gratwanderung zwischen Lächerlichkeit und Größe, Scheitern und Erfolg. Ein philosophischer Abenteuerroman von seltener Phantasie, Kraft und Brillanz.
«Ein großes Buch, ein genialer Streich.» (Frankfurter Rundschau)
«Urkomisch und herzzerreißend.» (Time Magazine)
«Ein wahrhaft reicher und bahnbrechender Roman.» (Nouvel Observateur)
«Daniel Kehlmanns Roman über Gauß und den Naturforscher Alexander von Humboldt ist die leichthändig ineinander verwobene Doppelbiographie zweier großer Gelehrter, so unterhaltsam und humorvoll und auf schwerelose Weise tiefgründig und intelligent, wie man es hierzulande kaum für möglich hält.» (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt E-Book
  • Release: 05.10.2009
  • ISBN: 978-3-644-00011-7
  • 384 Pages
  • Author: Daniel Kehlmann

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Die Vermessung der Welt
Daniel Kehlmann Die Vermessung der Welt
Heike Steinweg
© Heike Steinweg
Daniel Kehlmann

Daniel Kehlmann , born in 1975 in Munich, has received several awards for his work, including the Candide Prize, the Per-Olov Enquist Prize, the Kleist Prize, the Thomas Mann Prize, and the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize. His novel Measuring the World was one of the most successful German novels of the post-war period, and his novel Tyll also topped the bestseller lists for months and made it to the shortlist for the International Booker Prize. The Director was an international sensation. Daniel Kehlmann lives in Berlin and New York.