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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Getting bored of the thin fabric of the society
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.
丹尼尔克尔曼先生年轻英俊得不象话,盯着他照片中黑夹克上方的脸庞不到三秒钟,我就没道理地想起当年费雯丽在出演南方美人郝斯嘉大获成功后得到的一句评价:她有如此容貌,本不需如此演技;她有如此演技,本不需如此容貌。如果把它挪用到这位七五年出生的新锐作家身上,只需稍...
评分两位伟大的天才,带着各自人性的弱点,用不同的方式拓延了人类对世界的认知。穷尽一生来探索世界的本质,然而,究竟什么才是本质呢?长年累月细心记录的一组组实地数据,与婚床初夜灵光一闪而得的数学公式,到底哪个才更真实? 本书的最后几章很精彩。两条看似平行的线,在生命...
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