Kate’s 2¢: “Tyll” by Daniel Kehlmann; Ross M. Benjamin

“Tyll” by Daniel Kehlmann; Ross M. Benjamin
Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as, describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read. I’m just saying…

My first thought was that this story is quite phantasmagoric. (Phantasmagoria (noun) is a sequence of real or imaginary images like those seen in a dream.) That might also be a good definition of what a Psychological Fiction is all about.
Firdous Bamji did a great job of reading the story.

From Wikipedia:
Kehlmann was born in Munich, the son of the television director Michael Kehlmann and the actress Dagmar Mettler.[9] His family moved to his father’s hometown Vienna at the age of six. Kehlmann is partially of Jewish ancestry[10] and currently lives in New York City and Berlin.[11]
Since 2015, Kehlmann has successively held the Eberhard Berent Chair at New York University. He is a member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung.
2016-2017 he was a fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars.[12]
www.kehlmann.com is in German.
Ross M. Benjamin is a New York based writer and translator of German literature and a writer living in Nyack, New York.

From NLS/BARDD/LOC
Tyll DB98897
Kehlmann, Daniel; Benjamin, Ross. Reading time: 11 hours, 59 minutes.
Read by Firdous Bamji.

Psychological Fiction

After having to flee his small village when his father’s alchemical experiments are discovered by the church, Tyll and baker’s daughter Nele find safety with a traveling performer. Tyll learns the man’s trade–and deeper secrets. Translated from the original 2017 German edition. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020.
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