In Tyll, Daniel Kehlmann explores the German folklore figure Til Eulenspiegel. In common legends, Eulenspiegel is known for playing practical jokes on his contemporaries, exposing their foibles and hypocrisies. The first printed collection of Eulenspiegel stories dates to 1510, and it places his life as taking place in the early 1400s. Early printings were mostly …
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