圖書標籤: 小說 DanielKehlmann 暢銷小說 數學 外國文學 measuringtheworld 英文 美國
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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。
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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.
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評分Getting bored of the thin fabric of the society
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