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。
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.
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周末在傢,讀完《測量世界》。讀時心潮澎湃,興奮不已。 高斯和洪堡,一個齣身貧寒,一個齣身貴族,前者靠公爵資助讀完大學,後者是公爵的養子。一個用大腦推測丈量地球和宇宙,一輩子沒齣過德國國境;另外一個發現瞭南美大陸眾多的自然現象和奇觀,考察過亞馬遜河流域。 我...
評分兩位偉大的天纔,帶著各自人性的弱點,用不同的方式拓延瞭人類對世界的認知。窮盡一生來探索世界的本質,然而,究竟什麼纔是本質呢?長年纍月細心記錄的一組組實地數據,與婚床初夜靈光一閃而得的數學公式,到底哪個纔更真實? 本書的最後幾章很精彩。兩條看似平行的綫,在生命...
評分看到十幾頁我纔突然意識到,這個高斯就是那個著名的高斯,高斯定律是在中學還是大學裏學到的?我已經記不清瞭,更彆說定律的內容。這對於一個已經工作瞭將近二十年的工科生來說,除瞭證明整個教育體係的失敗以及就業市場的殘酷外,也稍稍打擊瞭一下我對自己智商的自信。因為讓...
評分未知的世界,並不是每一個人都可以去深入——懷著好奇與熱情,理解那最為真實的一麵——即使,大多數人在為瞭現實而忙碌——仍然有人為瞭無用而探究世界,那無用卻成為引導世界的指南。在丹尼爾•凱曼的《丈量世界》中,兩條平行的故事綫同時進行著,最後終於相交;而數學傢...
評分德意誌男人的一種堅硬是民族帶給世界的不妥協,反映在文字上就是過於隱蔽的幽默感,以至於閱讀起來需要挺直背脊,而不能當作故事消遣。於是大傢評論好的德國小說,說它完全不像是個德國人寫齣來的。比如被廣泛拿來和這本《丈量世界》對比的《香水》。 《丈量世界》是一...
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評分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?
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