That’s no fluke: Bad sex aside, this author has built a reputation as a mordant postmodernist who combines the geeky adventure of Neal Stephenson with the icy wit that Paul Auster was once known for. “Fame,” Kehlmann’s only novel after “Measuring the World,” moved more than 100,000 copies in its first week of release last year in Germany. Kehlmann is the author of 2005’s “Measuring the World,” a vaguely Pynchonesque novel about 19th century mathematicians and explorers that has sold 1.5 million copies worldwide and collected a slew of awards. It begins with the narrator musing, “I desired her so much I would have given a year of my life.” Once coitus begins he finds that “my existence split into two halves: a before and an after, for all time.” As the ecstasy continues, the lovers become “so entwined that we could be one body or Siamese twins,” and, quite mysteriously, “we clutch each other as if we were swimming in the Sargasso Sea.”ĭespite a little too much writing like that, “Fame” is not a dismissible book. Daniel Kehlmann’s novel “Fame” includes what must be one of the most hackneyed sex scenes I’ve read this year.
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