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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“很差”主要是從翻譯的角度上的評價。 最開始是從鳳凰衛視的開捲八分鍾知道的《丈量世界》,大陸版的叫《測量世界》。 是因為書中描寫的是高斯的故事,說是很風趣幽默,所以就買瞭一本。 但看這本書感覺好像不太連貫,開始以為是沒趕上作者的跳躍的思維,因為故事行進得很快...
評分周末在傢,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...
評分圖書標籤: 小說 DanielKehlmann 暢銷小說 數學 外國文學 measuringtheworld 英文 美國
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.
Measuring the World 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載