DREAM TEAM CHRISTOPHER R. BEHA ME AND KAMINSKI BY DANIEL KEHLMANN, TRANSLATED BY CAROL BROWN JANEWAY NEW YORK: PANTHEON. 208 PAGES. $22.
German novelist Daniel Kehlmann has a penchant for the figure who wakes with relief from one dream only to discover he has passed into another. In Kehlmann's excellent historical novel Measuring the World (2006), the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss finds himself "lying on the plank bed and dreaming that he was lying on the plank bed dreaming that he was lying on the plank bed and dreaming. Uneasily he sat up and realized immediately that he wasn't yet awake. "
That book's international success has prompted the translation of a 2003 …
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