![]() ![]() In the first story, a man's identity is usurped (or replaced) by a cell phone with calls intended for another. In each one, the protagonist's existence is virtual, and depends on something outside him or herself: a mobile phone, an uncritical audience, a stranger's imagination, a constantly changing technology. ![]() We have become ghosts.įame, by the 35-year-old Daniel Kehlmann, is a novel made up of nine ghost stories. We have solved Hamlet's question: we are and are not simultaneously. Today instead we are a conjured-up phantom on a solitary screen, a pseudonymous and unharboured email address, a disembodied voice that can be summoned by anyone, day and night, like a spirit at a séance. In any given place, we were the features and attitudes we showed the world at any specific moment, we were the things we did and said among our fellow humans. Physical presence was a condition of being. N ot long ago, we used to exist in space and time. ![]()
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