Brillant ist die Zeitgeistanalyse und ätzend die Persiflage auf den Kulturbetrieb, klug die Gedankenführung und witzig der Wust an Anspielungen, doch zieht man all das Smarte ab, hat Kehlmann nicht viel zu erzählen.' - Andreas Breitenstein, Neue Zürcher Zeitung

' F ist ein tempo-, geist- und trickreiches Stück Slapstick-Literatur über die seelische Krise unserer Epoche, das seinen tieferen Bedeutungsanspruch jedoch nicht einzulösen vermag.

The world is big, and ultimately unknowable, and life is short and memory pitifully limited.' - Simon Ings, The Guardian F is about the world’s absurdity, and this makes a huge difference morally. (.) Fame was knowing, driven by its own absurdity. 'The point of F is not its humour (though Kehlmann, like Robbe-Grillet, can be very funny indeed), but its generosity.Nie zuvor aber hat der Schriftsteller die doppelten Böden so lässig aufgefächert wie jetzt in F.' - Felicitas von Lovenberg, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 'Nun gehören raffinierte gedankliche Experimente und große philosophische Fragestellungen seit jeher zu Kehlmanns Werken.'Lacing comedy with menace, Kehlmann revels in a series of ingenious set pieces (.) Details are crisp yet cryptic.' - Julius Purcell, Financial Times.

General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author His sons grow into men who manifest their inexplicable loss - Martin becomes a priest who does not believe in God Ivan, a painter in constant artistic crisis Eric, a businessman given to hallucinations and a fear of ghosts - even as they struggle to understand their father's disappearance and make their own places in the world.Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. In time, still absent from his family, he beings to publish novels and becomes an internationally renowned author. Later that night, while his family sleeps, he takes his passport, empties all the money from his bank account, and vanishes. Protesting that he doesn't believe in magic even as he is led onto the stage, Arthur nevertheless experiences something. One day Arthur Friedland piles his three sons into the car and drives them to see the Great Lindemann, Master of Hypnosis. From the young, internationally acclaimed author of Measuring the World comes a stunning, tragicomic novel about three brothers, their relationship to their distant father, and their individual fates and struggles in the modern world.

F by Daniel Kehlmann