圖書標籤: 小說 DanielKehlmann 暢銷小說 數學 外國文學 measuringtheworld 英文 美國
发表于2024-11-05
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Loosely based on the lives of 19th-century explorer Alexander von Humboldt and a contemporary, mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, Kehlmann's novel, a German bestseller widely heralded as an exemplar of "new" German fiction, injects musty history with shots of whimsy and irony. Humboldt voyages to South America to map the Orinoco River, climb the Chimborazo peak in Ecuador and measure "every river, every mountain and every lake in his path." Gauss is the hedgehog to Humboldt's fox, leaping out of bed on his wedding night to jot down a formula and rarely leaving his hometown of Göttingen. The two meet at a scientific congress in 1828, when Germany is in turmoil after the fall of Napoleon. Other luminaries appear throughout the novel, including a senile Immanuel Kant, Louis Daguerre and Thomas Jefferson. The narrative is notable for its brisk pacing, lively prose and wry humor (curmudgeonly Gauss laments, for instance, how "every idiot would be able to... invent the most complete nonsense" about him 200 years hence), which keenly complements Kehlmann's intelligent, if not especially deep, treatment of science, mathematics and reason at the end of the Enlightenment.
丹尼爾• 凱曼(Daniel Kehlmann)
德國當代作傢,評論傢。1975年齣生於慕尼黑。後考入維也納大學,攻讀哲學與德國文學。
1997年齣版第一本小說《貝爾宏姆的想象》。2003年,小說《我與康明斯基》為他贏得世界聲譽。2005年,剛滿30歲的他齣版《丈量世界》,被譯為40多種語言,銷量突破200萬冊,被譽為二戰後德語文學最偉大的成就之一。2008年獲托馬斯•曼奬。
German romanticism is awaken by the hypothesis - what if basic ideas shaped our nowadays world is more derived from personal fever when science was deemed as a 'cult' rather than logical inevitabilities proclaimed&verified by its overwhelming effectiveness afterwards? Then, how should we weigh those people bearing contradictory ideas to their age?
評分First time read a seemingly weird novel, but very interesting, insightful. It shows two different genius' different ways of measuring the universe around them, one prefers to stay at home and keep thinking mathematics issues, the other want to adventure across globe and collect nature samples. Genius not always decent, sometimes evilly desirable.
評分First time read a seemingly weird novel, but very interesting, insightful. It shows two different genius' different ways of measuring the universe around them, one prefers to stay at home and keep thinking mathematics issues, the other want to adventure across globe and collect nature samples. Genius not always decent, sometimes evilly desirable.
評分Getting bored of the thin fabric of the society
評分First time read a seemingly weird novel, but very interesting, insightful. It shows two different genius' different ways of measuring the universe around them, one prefers to stay at home and keep thinking mathematics issues, the other want to adventure across globe and collect nature samples. Genius not always decent, sometimes evilly desirable.
德意志男人的一种坚硬是民族带给世界的不妥协,反映在文字上就是过于隐蔽的幽默感,以至于阅读起来需要挺直背脊,而不能当作故事消遣。于是大家评论好的德国小说,说它完全不像是个德国人写出来的。比如被广泛拿来和这本《丈量世界》对比的《香水》。 《丈量世界》是一...
評分 評分看了这本书,才知道原来高斯经常逛妓院,洪堡(不是创建洪堡大学的那位,创立洪堡大学那个洪堡是这个的哥哥)是个性无能。就连高斯新婚之夜俩人的前戏都写的那么曼妙,我在想这个作者是不是搭了架能隐身的时空机回到了那个时代分别跟踪了高斯和洪堡才知道的这些事。 ...
評分Measuring the World pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024