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Christoph Poschenrieder | Die Welt ist im Kopf | English Title: The World in the Head<br>Novel, 352 Pages

Novel, Hardcover
352 Pages
Published in March 2010

ISBN 978-3-257-06741-5
€ (D) 21.90 / (A) 22.60
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Christoph Poschenrieder
Die Welt ist im Kopf

English Title: The World in the Head

Schopenhauer would be only too pleased to see philosophers and writers reacting to his ideas – to see Hegel giving up his throne, and the elderly Goethe paying tribute to him, a mere 30 year old. But publication of his groundbreaking work has been delayed. And so Schopenhauer leaves Dresden for Italy in the late summer of 1818 without his book in his suitcase – he is still a nobody. Even before he arrives he attracts the attention of Metternich’s secret police: Goethe’s note recommending him to Lord Byron – a man with a wide reputation as a poet and as a figure of scandal – casts suspicion on Schopenhauer and makes him unwelcome in Austrian-occupied Veneto. But once he gets to Venice, Schopenhauer refuses to be driven out – and certainly not after he meets Teresa. For Teresa shows the young philosopher that he still needs to rethink one point in his world view: his idea of love. ›The World in the Head‹ is sold to: Flammarion (France) Rosenkilde (Denmark) Saída de Emergencia (Portugal) Mondadori (Italy)

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»The author’s admiration for the philosopher shines through on every page, and the novel will be unrivalled in opening the fascinating world of Schopenhauer’s thought to a general audience, just as Daniel Kehlmann did for Humboldt in ›Measuring the World‹.«New Books in German

»An intelligent book.«Literaturkurier.de

»›The World in the Head‹ truly deserves to be called a passionate debut. Christoph Poschenrieder not only shows a remarkable feel for language but also a sense for irony and joy in his story-telling.«buchjournal

»With an intuitive sense of the past, Christoph Poschenrieder succeeds not only in portraying Schopenhauer in love but also depicts a lively panorama of an era torn between Restoration and the desire for freedom.«Magazin in München

»Christoph Poschenrieder’s debut negotiates the delicate line between historical fact and literary fiction, and does so in a convincing and gripping manner. His debut is an inspiring journey through philosophy and art.«Ostthüringer Zeitung

»As well as simply a splendid portrait of an exciting epoch, this novel delivers a refined love story replete with secret agents, the Venetian Carnival, and a dog. Whosoever is ready to cast aside clichés of Schopenhauer the philosopher as misogynist and pessimist, will glean much pleasure from this intelligent book.«literaturkurier.de

»Poschenrieder has succeeded in breathing life into a potentially unwieldy subject.«Rheinische Post

»The charm of this book lies in the author’s ability to be inspired by Schopenhauer’s real life and to make the bare facts pulsate with life – he makes the reader curious to re-discover one of the great minds of German philosophy. No mean feat: a startling debut novel.«Augsburger Allgemeine

»Poschenrieder’s sensitive and lively imagination draws us into a torrent of poetry and truth, a whirlpool of quotes, allusions, and events that create a panoramic view of the time with a twist of the grotesque. A wonderfully intelligent, exciting, masterfully composed book, one that is a sensual delight to read. A flawless good read for the initiated.«Landshuter Zeitung

»Never have we experienced the presumed pessimist in this light. Here is an unexpected Schopenhauer, a world away from the pessimistic, bad-tempered cliché. Poschenrieder describes it all from a delicately ironic slant in incredibly finely crafted language that brings a vivacity and relish to the historical facts.«hr-online

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