| Title: | Daniel Kehlmanns Tyll oder die Zeit der Narren |
| Author: | Laura Cheie |
| Publication: | Temeswarer Beiträge zur Germanistik, 15, p. 179-196 |
| p-ISSN: | 1453-7621 |
| Publisher: | Mirton Verlag |
| Place: | Temeswar |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Abstract: | Till Eulenspiegel is a legendary German trickster, whose practical jokes and malicious irony spare nobody, exposing vices at every turn. He is also a symbolic mask for the popular fool’s license, that goes even beyond that one of a court jester and that remains fascinating till today. The Austrian author Daniel Kehlmann is also mesmerized by the indestructible free spirit and the mysterious aura of this character of the Middle Ages. In his latest novell Tyll (2017) he places the fool in the chaotic and brutal time of the Thirty-Year War as a complex vagrant artist, an actor, entertainer and provocateur. The present paper analyzes the symbolism of this figure in the political and cultural context of the depicted historical era, more precisely the mask of the fool as a complex metaphor for revealing a time of the fools in politics and science. |
| Key words: | Tyll Ulenspiegel / Till Eulenspiegel, the fool, the Thirty-Year War |
| Language: | German |
| Links: |  pdf |
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