Me And Kaminski
''Me and Kaminski'' (german: Ich und Kaminski) is a 2003 novel by the Austrian-German writer Daniel Kehlmann. It tells the story of a "klutzy journalist""Comedy of errors"
Andrew Motion, ''The Guardian'', 31 October 2008. who goes on a journey with an elderly painter he is writing a biography about.''Me and Kaminski''
at ''complete review''. Last accessed April 26, 2012.

Reception

Jake Kerridge wrote in ''The Daily Telegraph'': "It is over a century since George Gissing described the whole business of biography as 'a farce'. That is the view Kehlmann takes, not only in the sense that the biography industry is trivial and contempti ...
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Daniel Kehlmann
Daniel Kehlmann (; born 13 January 1975) is a German-language novelist and playwright of both Austrian and German nationality.Interview with Kehlmann
in the ''Tagesspiegel''. His novel ''Die Vermessung der Welt'' (translated into English by Carol Brown Janeway as ''Measuring the World'', 2006) is the best selling book in the German language since Patrick Süskind's ''Perfume (book), Perfume'' was released in 1985. In an ironic way, it deals with Alexander von Humboldt, one of the world's best-known naturalists of the 18th and 19th centuries, and Humboldt's relationship with the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. According to ''The New York Times'', it was the world's second-best selling novel in 2006. All his subsequent novels reached the number one spot on G ...
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