Abstract
ABSTRACT This essay focuses on Daniel Kehlmann’s Tyll, a historical novel about the legendary jester, Till Eulenspiegel, set in the Thirty Years War. Kehlmann’s work is about the making of meaning in an era in flux. He brings a postmodern awareness to the premodern world, infusing ethics and affect into questions about the nature of knowledge and the writing of history. His characters interpret ambiguous evidence and spin truth in tales that have real-life consequences. The result is postmodern melodrama, historical fiction for the age of information.
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