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Blake Morrison: Daniel Kehlmann’s Pabst, 10 July 2025
The Director
by Daniel Kehlmann, translated by Ross Benjamin.
Riverrun, 333 pp., £22, May,978 1 5294 3511 5 Show More
by Daniel Kehlmann, translated by Ross Benjamin.
Riverrun, 333 pp., £22, May,
“... I could write them without having to read them, I’d never go near them either.’ Ross Benjamin, the novel’s translator, deftly captures the Wodehouse manner. Or perhaps that’s down to Kehlmann, who has an affection for British humour, history and literature. The eponymous hero of his previous novel, Tyll (2017), may be a German ... ”