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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?
评分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.
评分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.
评分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?
评分Getting bored of the thin fabric of the society
丹尼尔• 凯曼(Daniel Kehlmann)
德国当代作家,评论家。1975年出生于慕尼黑。后考入维也纳大学,攻读哲学与德国文学。
1997年出版第一本小说《贝尔宏姆的想象》。2003年,小说《我与康明斯基》为他赢得世界声誉。2005年,刚满30岁的他出版《丈量世界》,被译为40多种语言,销量突破200万册,被誉为二战后德语文学最伟大的成就之一。2008年获托马斯•曼奖。
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.
当我拿到这本书的时候,我首先想到的是我可能要花很长很长的时间才能将其读完,或者根本就读不完。之前买来读书经常发生这样的事,我也已经习以为常。书的封面设计很枯燥很学术,整片的深蓝色上画着一圈圈等高线,看完后才知道那也许是洪堡的杰作吧,新书买来我总是习惯...
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评分 评分周末在家,读完《测量世界》。读时心潮澎湃,兴奋不已。 高斯和洪堡,一个出身贫寒,一个出身贵族,前者靠公爵资助读完大学,后者是公爵的养子。一个用大脑推测丈量地球和宇宙,一辈子没出过德国国境;另外一个发现了南美大陆众多的自然现象和奇观,考察过亚马逊河流域。 我...
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