Markus Gasser

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Markus Gasser
Gasser at a book signing in 2015
Born	1967 (age 58–59) Bregenz, Austria
Occupations	Literary scholar and author
Website	http://m-gasser.ch/home

Markus Gasser (born 1967) is an Austrian literary scholar and author.

Life

Markus Gasser was born in Bregenz in 1967. After the gymnasium, he went to the University of Innsbruck for German, English and American studies. He attained a habilitation in 2007 with the thesis "The Collapse of the Platonic cave" (German: Die Sprengung der platonischen Höhle).

Markus Gasser lives in Zurich, Switzerland, and is an Austrian citizen. He lives there with his wife and leads a lively life as an author and lecturer in the region.

Works

• Die Sprengung der platonischen Höhle: Roman und Philosophie im Widerstreit (in German). Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag. 2007. ISBN 978-3-8353-0139-9.
• Das Königreich im Meer. Daniel Kehlmanns Geheimnis (in German). Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag. 2010. ISBN 978-3-8353-0617-2.
• Das Königreich im Meer. Daniel Kehlmanns Geheimnis (in German). Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag. 2013. ISBN 978-3-499-25852-7.
• Das Buch der Bücher für die Insel (in German). München: Hanser Verlag. 2014. ISBN 978-3-446-24495-5.
• Eine Weltgeschichte in 33 Romanen (in German). München: Hanser Verlag. 2015. ISBN 978-3-446-24919-6.
• Die Launen der Liebe. Hanser, München 2019, ISBN 978-3-446-25839-6.
• Die Verschwörung der Krähen. Novel. C.H.Beck, München 2022, ISBN 978-3-406-78150-6.
• Lil. Novel. C.H.Beck, München 2024, ISBN 978-3-406-81375-7.

References

External links

• Markus Gasser's official website Archived 27 May 2019 at the Wayback Machine
• Markus Gasser (Hanser Publications)