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Me and Kaminski
Me and Kaminski: A Novel | Daniel Kehlmann
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Sebastian Zollner is searching for his big break. A failure as a journalist, a boyfriend, and a human being, he sets out to write the essential biography of the eccentric painter Manuel Kaminski. All he needs to do is ingratiate himself into Kaminskis family, wait for him to kick the bucket, and then reap the rewards. Theres only one problem. Kaminski has an agenda of his own, an agenda that will send them on a wild-goose chase to places neither of them ever expected to go. Told with Nabokovian wit and an edgy intelligence, Me and Kaminski is a shrewd send-up of art and journalistic pretensions from the internationally acclaimed author of Measuring the World. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Ich und Kaminski: Roman | Daniel Kehlmann
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Another piece of boring “high literature”. Sebastian annoyed me. He thinks he is so clever but he is just arrogant, childish, lazy, unorganised. Can‘t take him serious. – And the painter Kaminski❓ I don‘t know. He‘s a stereotype of an old man commanding everyone in his surroundings around.
The only realistic thing was the encounter in the North. That‘s what it must be like when old people meet.
The “surprise” in the end didn‘t even make me grin.

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Ich und Kaminski: Roman | Daniel Kehlmann
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Also < 200 pages from my wish list.

A book about a guy who manages to be the author/ghost writer for the biography of the painter Kaminski. So he is at first very proud but of course, the longer he knows the famous man the more he realizes that the painter is a complicated personality.

When I read the blurb I just imagined Kaminsky to be like Al Pacino in „Scent of a Woman“ and that made the plot interesting to me.

BookBabe Thanks for sharing! Sounds like a great book. 📚🎨 5y
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