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“... even as fiction, the Bad Taste Police would be on to them. At the start of The Director, Daniel Kehlmann takes that risk and gets away with it. ‘Why am I in this car?’ the narrator, Franz Wilzek, asks en route from the Abendruh Sanatorium for a television interview. He’s late on set because of a mishap in the bathroom, doesn’t recognise ...”

“... thankless job of historically contextualising Kraus’s grievances, and the German-Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann, whose interpretations can be divided into the four categories that Freud apportioned for jokes: the obscene, the aggressive, the cynical and the absurd. Franzen insists on a connection between Kraus – who was misunderstood by Viennese Jews ...”

“... finished novel, Night Work. Throughout the novel, he exchanges text messages with his friend ‘Daniel’ (read: Daniel Kehlmann), whose novel Die Vermessung der Welt (published here last year as Measuring the World) has just been shortlisted for the German Book Prize and is selling phenomenally well. The title ...”

“... Daniel Kehlmann​ ’s new novel, F, takes the risk of starting with a set piece. The first sentence runs: ‘Years later, long since fully grown and each of them enmeshed in his own particular form of unhappiness, none of Arthur Friedland’s sons could recall whose idea it had actually been to go to the hypnotist that afternoon ...”