Zusammenfassung Kehlmann bringt Fiktion und Realität in seinem neuen Roman "Tyll" zusammen. Kehlmann creates an intertextual riddle, shifting back and forward in time, deliberately full of flaws and conceptual loopholes. Caught up by the whirlwind of the Thirty Years" War, unprotected by law, Tyll turns from an able trickster similar to the character from the popular folk song into a fool for the so-called Winter King of Bohemia, Frederick V. Tyll, suffering from childhood trauma, runs away from home and becomes a travelling artist. Moreover, in contrast to the rough farce, Kehlmann equips his Tyll with an individual biography. But while De Coster presented his Till as a freedom fighter for the Protestant Netherlands against Catholic Spanish oppression, Kehlmann pictures an entirely different character. Kehlmann employs literary borrowings from the original rough farce and Charles De Coster"s world-famous version of the 19 th century, The Legend of Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak. Eulenspiegel, a real-life character became popular through folk songs of the 15 th and 16 th centuries in Germany, but Kehlmann creates a historical novel, placing his Tyll in the Thirty Years" War (1618-1648), a war tormenting central Europe.
The Name Tyll refers to the old medieval figure Till Eulenspiegel. ISBN 9781529403671 Purchase this product now and earn 33 Points!This article examines intertextuality in the novel Tyll, by Daniel Kehlmann, from 2017. When citizens become the playthings of politics and puppetry, Tyll, in his demonic grace and his thirst for freedom, is the very spirit of rebellion – a cork in water, a laugh in the dark, a hero for all time. With macabre humour and moving humanity, Daniel Kehlmann lifts this legend from medieval German folklore and enters him on the stage of the Thirty Years’ War. Between the quests of fat counts, witch-hunters and scheming queens, Tyll dances his mocking fugue exposing the folly of kings and the wisdom of fools. As a travelling entertainer, his journey will take him across the land and into the heart of a never-ending war.Ī prince’s doomed acceptance of the Bohemian throne has European armies lurching brutally for dominion and now the Winter King casts a sunless pall.
In the courts he will trick the heads of state. On the battlefield he will run faster than cannonballs. When he comes out, he will never be the same. He practises by the mill, by the blacksmiths he practises in the forest at night, where the Cold Woman whispers and goblins roam. Tyll Ulenspiegel is here! In a village like every other village in Germany, a scrawny boy balances on a rope between two trees. His handshake’s like a pact with the devil, his smile like a crack in the clouds he’s watching you now and he’s gone when you turn.
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