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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自從人類進化為有思維能力的智人,思考就成瞭人類最好的朋友,並且被認為是人類有彆並且優於其他生物的原因。人類似乎無論何時也不會停止自己思考的腳步,且從中找到瞭真正的樂趣,而《丈量世界》的作者就從兩位天纔的奮鬥過程中為我們思辨的展現瞭人類思考的曆程。 故事總要從...
評分 評分 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《測量世界》,昨天迴到住處,擱在桌上,打開它,一切就都發生瞭,七點到十二點,那把木椅子格格響,我打著寒擺終於讀完它。小說結構用的是雙主角雙綫式,在故事結尾處交匯,把情節交給一位先前不起眼的次要人物。丹尼爾·剋爾曼30歲瞭,這結構掌握得那麼不盡人意,可見他不是...
圖書標籤: 小說 DanielKehlmann 暢銷小說 數學 外國文學 measuringtheworld 英文 美國
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Getting bored of the thin fabric of the society
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