Daniel Kehlmann From the young, internationally acclaimed author of Measuring the World comes a stunning, tragicomic novel about three brothers, their relationship to their distant father, and their individual fates and struggles in the modern world. One day Arthur Friedland piles his three sons into the car and drives them to see the Great Lindemann, Master of Hypnosis.
Protesting that he doesn't believe in magic even as he is led onto the stage, Arthur nevertheless experiences something. Later that night, while his family sleeps, he takes his passport, empties all the money from his bank account, and vanishes. In time, still absent from his family, he beings to publish novels and becomes an internationally renowned author.
His sons grow into men who manifest their inexplicable loss - Martin becomes a priest who does not believe in God; Ivan, a painter in constant artistic crisis; Eric, a businessman given to hallucinations and a fear of ghosts - even as they struggle to understand their father's disappearance and make their own places in the world. Daniel Kehlmann & Ross Benjamin - translator From the internationally best-selling author of Measuring the World and F, an eerie and supernatural tale of a writer's emotional collapse. 'It is fitting that I'm beginning a new notebook up here. New surroundings and new ideas, a new beginning. This passage is from the first entry of a journal kept by the narrator of Daniel Kehlmann's spellbinding new novel.
It is the record of the seven days that he, his wife, and his four-year-old daughter spend in a house they have rented in the mountains of Germany - a house that thwarts the expectations of the narrator's recollection and seems to defy the very laws of physics. He is eager to finish a screenplay for a sequel to the movie that launched his career, but something he cannot explain is undermining his convictions and confidence, a process he is recording in this account of the uncanny events that unfold as he tries to understand what, exactly, is happening around him - and within him. Daniel Kehlmann & Carol Janeway (Translator) Imagine being famous. Being recognized on the street, adored by people who have never even met you, known the world over. Wouldn’t that be great?
But what if, one day, you got stuck in a country where celebrity means nothing, where no one spoke your language and you didn’t speak theirs, where no one knew your face (no book jackets, no TV) and you had no way of calling home? How would your fame help you then?
What if someone got hold of your cell phone? What if they spoke to your girlfriends, your agent, your director, and started making decisions for you? And worse, what if no one believed you were you anymore? When you saw a look-alike acting your roles for you, what would you do? And what if one day you realized your magnum opus, like everything else you’d ever written, was a total waste of time, empty nonsense? What would you do next? Would your audience of seven million people keep you going?
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Or would you lose the capacity to keep on doing it? Fame and facelessness, truth and deception, spin their way through all nine episodes of this captivating, wickedly funny, and perpetually surprising novel as paths cross and plots thicken, as characters become real people and real people morph into characters.
The result is a dazzling tour de force by one of Europe’s finest young writers. Daniel Kehlmann From the internationally best-selling author Daniel Kehlmann, a provocative, wickedly funny novel about two unpredictable men - one an artist and the other a journalist - who together embark on an unexpected adventure with uproarious results. Sebastian Zollner's failure as a journalist is matched only by his personal failures: his girlfriend is moving a new lover in before Sebastian even knows he's been dumped. Searching for the break that will redeem him in the eyes of his peers, he heads off on a wild-goose chase into the mountains to interview the eccentric, legendary painter Manuel Kaminski with the hope of writing his biography.
Kaminski is going blind and is living in seclusion with his daughter. He could be working on his next masterpiece or easing into his final days, and his inconsistent career raises the question of whether he has been a fraud or a genius.
His artistic reputation hinges on any number of factors, but most prominently on a definitive biography. Enter Zollner - who has no intention of writing a puff piece. He's out to dig dirt and to force Kaminski to confront the legacy of his work.
But the secrets he uncovers will lead Kaminski, and Zollner himself, to places neither of them ever expected to go. With edgy wit and intelligence, Kehlmann dives into the question of what is 'truth' in our celebrity-crazed times and embraces the energy and humanity that lie beneath the pretensions of the art and journalistic worlds.
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Published in English November 7, 2006 Pages 304 (German hardcover edition) 272 (English hardcover edition) (German hardcover edition) (English hardcover edition) PT2671.E32 V47 2005 Measuring the World (German: Die Vermessung der Welt) is a novel by German author, 2005 published by, Reinbek. The novel re-imagines the lives of German mathematician and German geographer —who was accompanied on his journeys by —and their many groundbreaking ways of taking the world's measure, as well as Humboldt's and Bonpland's travels in America and their meeting in 1828. One subplot fictionalises the conflict between Gauss and his son Eugene; while Eugene wanted to become a linguist, his father decreed that he study law. The English translation is by (November 2006). The book was a bestseller; by 2012 it had sold more than 2.3 million copies in Germany alone.
A film version directed by was released in 2012. References.
'I want to explore the world!' That is a quite common answer if you ask a group of motivated preteen students what they want to do when they grow up. Hungry little caterpillars, they eat their way through a mixed diet of knowledge and skills over the course of their education before entering the strange teenage cocoon stage when they can't be bothered with anything but their own physical and social development. As a teacher, you look at all these potential explorers, and their diverse approaches 'I want to explore the world!' That is a quite common answer if you ask a group of motivated preteen students what they want to do when they grow up. Hungry little caterpillars, they eat their way through a mixed diet of knowledge and skills over the course of their education before entering the strange teenage cocoon stage when they can't be bothered with anything but their own physical and social development. As a teacher, you look at all these potential explorers, and their diverse approaches to life, and to learning and interpretation of reality, and you think: 'I have no doubt that they will explore the world, but what EXACTLY that will mean, nobody can tell until they are fully developed butterflies, with their own individual patterns and flight routes!'
That is the core of the story Kehlmann tells, by using the examples of two famous adventurers of the Enlightenment. You can sit in your room and explore the abstract world of mathematics in your own isolated brain, like Gauss, or you can climb mountains, swim through rivers, march through swamps, and collect physical evidence of your journey, like Alexander von Humboldt.
Either way, you will be exploring the world, according to your needs, your history, your education and your personality. Genius has many shapes, and expresses itself in various ways, is the optimistic message (a life-saving one for teachers who work with the post-caterpillar, pre-butterfly cocoon-stage). Geniuses are humans with specific talents and difficulties, and their own issues, is the realistic conclusion, and all it takes to cross the line between ordinary talent and genius may be a stubborn curious desire to move on towards an ever changing horizon. Geniuses achieve great things with ordinary bodies and minds, and extraordinary belief in the possibilities of the world. Geniuses can be grumpy and worried and arrogant and absent-minded and just plain funny, they come in all colours and shapes. What do they have in common?
They use their wings! تخرج من الإمتحان بعد ثلاث ساعات كاملة. آلام في الرأس. آلام في الكتفين من الوضع المنحني على الورقة. آلام في العينين. تذهب إلى أقرب زاوية لتبتعد عن الكلام. تريد أن تستعيد تواجدك في العالم الحقيقي تدريجيا.
بعد أن كنت متواجدا في عالم الأرقام والمعادلات. تسترخي قليلا محاولا إبعاد نفسك عن التفكير في إحاباتك على الورقة. خمس دقائق تمضي. الآن تتمشى قليلا لتعيد ضخ الدماء إلى رجليك اليابستين من أثر الجلوس لمدة طويلة. تمر ببعض الأصدقاء. تحييهم بابتسامة.
يردها بعضهم والبع تخرج من الإمتحان بعد ثلاث ساعات كاملة. آلام في الرأس. آلام في الكتفين من الوضع المنحني على الورقة.
آلام في العينين. تذهب إلى أقرب زاوية لتبتعد عن الكلام. تريد أن تستعيد تواجدك في العالم الحقيقي تدريجيا. بعد أن كنت متواجدا في عالم الأرقام والمعادلات. تسترخي قليلا محاولا إبعاد نفسك عن التفكير في إحاباتك على الورقة. خمس دقائق تمضي.
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الآن تتمشى قليلا لتعيد ضخ الدماء إلى رجليك اليابستين من أثر الجلوس لمدة طويلة. تمر ببعض الأصدقاء. تحييهم بابتسامة. يردها بعضهم والبعض الآخر لا. لأنهم منهمكون في جدال عقيم. تحاول الإبتعاد بأقصى سرعة. ثم فجأة تسمع كلمة.
كلمة واحدة فقط تمر كتيار كهربائي لتستقر في عمودك الفقري. تسير خطوتين ثم تتوقف. تحاول أن تتأكد أن ما سمعته صحيح. يقول آخر ' نعم غوس '. تسأل نفسك ما دخل غوس ؟ ولماذا هم يتحدثون عنه ؟. ترجع للوراء قليلا وتسأل أحدهم: غوس ؟؟!!.
وقبل أن يجيبك. وقبل أن تتحرك شفاهه. ترتجف قليلا لأنك تعرف الإجابة. نعم تعرفها حق المعرفة.
لم أستعمل نظرية غوس. لم استعمل نظرية غوس!!. وبالتالي أخطأت في الإجابة عن السؤال. وبالتالي أخطأت في الإجابة عن باقي الأسئلة لأنها مترابطة.
وبالتالي يجب أن أعترف: إنني أكرهك يا غوس:D مسح العالم. قياس الممالك في دروب المهالك. رواية أو سير ذاتية لعالمين من كبار العلماء الذين أنجبتهم ألمانيا ' كارل فريدريش غاوس أو غوس ' و ' ألكسندر فون هومبولت ' الأول عبقري بكل ما تحمل الكلمة من معنى. تسارعت نظرياته الرياضية واكتشافاته وهو لم يبلغ العشرين من العمر، والثاني شخص مثابر، مجاهد، محب للعلم وشغوف به. جال وصال في براري الأمازون وأمريكا اللاتينية في سبيل العلم. رواية جميلة وفيها معلومات متنوعة أرشحها لمن يحبون القراءة عن العلماء وحياتهم وأهم مكتشفاتهم. 'It was both odd and injust, said Gauss, a real example of the pitiful arbitrariness of existence, that you were born into a particular time and held prisoner there whether you wanted it or not.
It gave you an indecent advantage over the past and made you a clown vis-a-vis the future.' I'm not sure what to make of this one: I didn't love it, I didn't hate it. It certainly was not what I expected. I do admire Kehlmann for trying a different angle on a historical novel about two eminent characters i 'It was both odd and injust, said Gauss, a real example of the pitiful arbitrariness of existence, that you were born into a particular time and held prisoner there whether you wanted it or not.
It gave you an indecent advantage over the past and made you a clown vis-a-vis the future.' I'm not sure what to make of this one: I didn't love it, I didn't hate it. It certainly was not what I expected. I do admire Kehlmann for trying a different angle on a historical novel about two eminent characters in their own time. The novel style and focus on what basically is a sequence of vignettes work well to bring out the character in Kehlmann's two subjects - Humboldt and Gauss. However, this is at the expense of any historical facts (other than that the two people existed): There is one (or maybe two) references to dates in this book, and I felt this was only to give the reader a timeframe to anchor the story in. Other than this, there are very few facts in this story that could be referenced back to anything.
Yet, this is not due to a lack of research on the part of the author. To draw a picture of both characters in as much detail as he does would have required a lot of research. The book just does not bring this across which makes this more a novel that featured two characters with the names of actual people and some enterprises these people may have set out to, but little else makes this book feel like a historical novel. And this is where my problem is again: If I want to read about actual people, I want facts, I want references, I want to be able to go away and read more about something they did. I do not want speculation about what they have thought or felt, or whether their brother tried to kill them when they were little. Unless I can go away and find other supporting material about any of this, I am simply not interested.
The upside to the book was that there was no love triangle, which so often spoils historical fiction books. Fascinating read. A scientific historical novel (first published in 2005) originally written in German by young author, Daniel Kehlmann (born 1975).
It is said to be the worldwide bestselling German novel since Patrick Suskind's Perfume in 1985. This is a story of a two scientists during the time of Napoleon reign in Europe. The first scientist is Alexander von Humboldt who is a botanist, geologist and an explorer. He has an elder brother Wilhelm von Humboldt who lives a 'normal' life, i.e., stu Fascinating read. A scientific historical novel (first published in 2005) originally written in German by young author, Daniel Kehlmann (born 1975). It is said to be the worldwide bestselling German novel since Patrick Suskind's Perfume in 1985. This is a story of a two scientists during the time of Napoleon reign in Europe.
The first scientist is Alexander von Humboldt who is a botanist, geologist and an explorer. He has an elder brother Wilhelm von Humboldt who lives a 'normal' life, i.e., study, work, marry, raise a family and die while Humboldt pursues his dream of proving the scientific theory called 'Neptunism' or the belief that the core of the earth is solid rock. That mountain ranges are created by the chemical precipitations left as the primordial ocean shrinks. That the fire in volcanoes doesn't come from deep in the earth but is fed by burning coalfields. This theory was championed by both churches and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(Remember that this was during the time of Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821 and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who was a German writer and polymath, 1749-1832. By the way, as this is a historical scientific novel, both the Humboldt brothers were also real German famous personalities) The second scientist is Carl Friedrich Gauss who is a mathematician and scientist. He is also the author of the book Disquisitiones which deals with the number consolidating theory that shaped several mathematical theories known today. He is a boy genius in mathematics. I particularly enjoyed the classroom scene when his 'terror' butt-spanking teacher asks him to add all the numbers from 1 to 100 thinking that the young Gauss will manually write and add all the numbers from 1 to 100. What he does, to the astonishment of the said teacher, is that he starts with a hundred and one. A hundred plus one equals a hundred and one.
Ninety-nine plus two equals a hundred and one. Always a hundred and one. Ninety-eight plus three equals a hundred and one. You could do that fifty times. So, fifty times a hundred and one.' Answer: five thousand and fifty! Unlike Humboldt, Gauss has a family, he got married twice and has 6 children.
One of his children, his son Eugen, is one of the main characters in the novel. He feels unloved because Gauss is disappointed that they do not share the same interest. Gauss is a genius while his son Eugen has an average intellect. The novel is divided into several chapters with the life and times of Gauss and Humboldt alternating until the fifth to the last chapter when they meet.
The novel shows what scientist in the 18th century go through (almost spending their whole life and even their family and social life) to pursue their careers and academic passions. The book is full of anecdotes and scientific theories and explanations that Kehlmann was able to tell in a light and even funny way. Something that only gifted storytellers can successfully pull off. My favorite quote comes at the last part of the story when Humboldt was in his 'sunset' year as a scientist and his sister-in-law, the wife of his elder brother died. This is part of his speech prior to visiting the deathbed: What, ladies and gentlemen, is death? Fundamentally it is not extinction and those seconds when life ends, but the slow decline that precedes it, that creeping debility that extends over years: the time in which a person is still there and yet not there, in which he can still imagine that although his prime is long since past, it lingers yet.
So circumspectly, ladies and gentlemen, has nature organized our death!' In the same chapter, Gauss receives a letter from his elder brother (remember that they are both old and gray already). This is after the funeral and the elder Humboldt is thanking him for his visit and support during the death of his wife. Part of the letter is this: Whether we see each other again or not, now once more, it is just we two, as it always was fundamentally. We were inculcated early with the lesson that life requires an audience. We both believed that the whole world was ours. Little by little the circles became smaller, and we were forced to realize that the actual goal of all our efforts was not the cosmos but merely each other.
Because of you I wanted to become a minister, because of me you had to conquer the highest mountain and the deepest caverns, for you I founded the greatest university, for me you discovered South America, and only fools who fail to understand the significance of a single life in double form would describe this as a rivalry.' For me, the message of the novel is how we will be 'measured' in terms of how we lived our lives at the end of our stay in this world. More than financial wealth and highest position we reach in our careers, it is how we loved and how we were loved back by those who we shared our lives with. Also posted in.
“Whenever things were frightening, it was a good idea to measure them.” This is a delightful historical picaresque about two late-eighteenth-century German scientists: Alexander von Humboldt, who valiantly explored South America and the Russian steppes, and Carl Friedrich Gauss, a misanthropic mathematician whose true genius wasn’t fully realized in his surveying and astronomical work. Both difficult in their own way, the men represent different models for how to do science: an adventurous one w “Whenever things were frightening, it was a good idea to measure them.” This is a delightful historical picaresque about two late-eighteenth-century German scientists: Alexander von Humboldt, who valiantly explored South America and the Russian steppes, and Carl Friedrich Gauss, a misanthropic mathematician whose true genius wasn’t fully realized in his surveying and astronomical work. Both difficult in their own way, the men represent different models for how to do science: an adventurous one who goes on journeys of discovery, and one who stays at home looking at what’s right under his nose.
(Gauss envisions a scientist as “A man alone at his desk. A sheet of paper in front of him, at most a telescope as well, and a clear sky outside the window.”) I especially loved Gauss’s hot-air balloon ride and Humboldt’s attempt to summit a mountain. The lack of speech marks somehow adds to the dry wit. So 200 years ago the world was a pretty big place. Not any bigger than it is now but it had the feel of a larger ball of rock as many humans were still scrambling about 'discovering' places.
Note - most of these places had already been discovered by the people who lived in them. They just didn't shout about it in quite the same way.
It is also interesting to note that the people doing the scrambling about were, for the most part, European. Is this because all Europe-ers are massive nosy bastards So 200 years ago the world was a pretty big place. Not any bigger than it is now but it had the feel of a larger ball of rock as many humans were still scrambling about 'discovering' places. Note - most of these places had already been discovered by the people who lived in them. They just didn't shout about it in quite the same way.
It is also interesting to note that the people doing the scrambling about were, for the most part, European. Is this because all Europe-ers are massive nosy bastards? Or maybe everyone else is happy where they are, mainly because fate/god/evolution saw to it that they got a warmer and more exotic spot on the big ball of rock. Another hypothesis might be that some parts of Europe were actually quite late off the mark with regards to general international nosiness. Empires from China, Persia, Greece, Italy and the Middle East had already got a lot of wandering out of their system prior to the time many Europeans were just stretching their legs and wondering exactly what was over the next hill.
The 'nosey Europe-ers' in question in this book are Gauss and Humboldt, both of whom were real gentlemen who did lots of simultaneous wandering and pondering. At this point, I suppose it would be good to present people with some hard facts that I may have learned (or Googled) about Gauss or Humboldt but I don't have any so I am unable to pass comment on how much artistic license Kehlmann took with the main characters. Essentially they are both stupendously clever but Gauss is cleverer than Humboldt what with being your more bog-standard genius and all. Humboldt is pretty smart, incredibly observant and probably an early example of someone with undiagnosed low latent inhibition (if you watched Prison Break then you'll know what I mean). Humboldts determination to be a genius actually almost puts him on level pegging with Gauss who is a bit lazier and less inclined to travel outside of Prussia. Is there a moral to this slightly comedic tale of exploration by two men, both with issues?
Doesn't make it a bad read though, just means you'll walk away thinking 'ok well that was quite nice' rather than 'wow I am a better and more well rounded sentient entity for reading that'. Don't like this book. The characters of the historical figures of Gauss and Von Humboldt are flat, like in a graphic novel. As a result it is even difficult to keep the two apart. I do not see the sense of using real people in a novel if you do not try to develop their psychology, not try to understand their motives, doubts, struggles. In this novel it remains superficial.
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There is some humor, yes, but again, what is this book meant to be? As a historical novel I cannot take i Don't like this book.
The characters of the historical figures of Gauss and Von Humboldt are flat, like in a graphic novel. As a result it is even difficult to keep the two apart.
I do not see the sense of using real people in a novel if you do not try to develop their psychology, not try to understand their motives, doubts, struggles. In this novel it remains superficial. There is some humor, yes, but again, what is this book meant to be? As a historical novel I cannot take it seriously.
Outside of my comfort zone, which sometimes works out and sometimes does not. In this case, a historical novel about a German explorer named Humboldt and a German mathematician and astronomer named Gauss. Some chapters you get the explorer (more entertaining, if episodic due to the movement in the Americas) and some chapters. You get the math (eh).
Brief scenes of interest, but not so gripping after all, and little investment in the characters who are anything but warm, fuzzy types. Rather the s Outside of my comfort zone, which sometimes works out and sometimes does not.
In this case, a historical novel about a German explorer named Humboldt and a German mathematician and astronomer named Gauss. Some chapters you get the explorer (more entertaining, if episodic due to the movement in the Americas) and some chapters. Free webcammax serial number. You get the math (eh).
Brief scenes of interest, but not so gripping after all, and little investment in the characters who are anything but warm, fuzzy types. Rather the stereotypical Germans instead.
One of those 'do I continue, or do I give up?' One of those 'outside of my comfort zone' books that doesn't work out, at least not to the extent expected. Translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway. I read this back in 2007 in English, now in German for a book club. Here is my 2007 review.
It is not uncommon to find fictional accounts of the lives of famous historical figures, nor of encounters between them. Kehlmann's book is unusual in its choice of personalities and in the way in which he creates an entertaining description of the two. In the late eighteenth century, Carl Friedrich Gauss and Alexander von Humboldt had both embarked on the same quest: finding a new way of measuring the wor I read this back in 2007 in English, now in German for a book club. Here is my 2007 review.
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It is not uncommon to find fictional accounts of the lives of famous historical figures, nor of encounters between them. Kehlmann's book is unusual in its choice of personalities and in the way in which he creates an entertaining description of the two. In the late eighteenth century, Carl Friedrich Gauss and Alexander von Humboldt had both embarked on the same quest: finding a new way of measuring the world. The two heroes couldn't be more different in character and approach. Gauss believed that 'a man alone at his desk' represented the real scientist whereas von Humboldt saw him as a world traveler, collecting the evidence in the field and taking measurements wherever he went. Basing himself on the historical records of their lives and work, Kehlmann has created a tongue-in-cheek intimate portrait of these two scientific giants of their time. Gauss was a child prodigy from poor lower class background.
He became known as the 'Prince of Mathematicians' for his mathematical genius and who wrote his major scientific work at the age of 21. His name has been attached to many scientific discoveries including magnetism and astronomy. Not much is known of his private life, though, except for the bare facts of family and jobs that he had to support himself.
He treated many of his scientific deductions as too easy and commonsensical to write about, only to be annoyed when somebody else published something related. Today we would say he was a curmudgeon kind of character. Count von Humboldt, on the other hand, came from a well-off aristocratic family and was spoiled for options what to do with his life.
He and brother Wilhelm, a diplomat and linguist, have been a household name then and now, at least in German speaking countries. Alexander's work as a naturalist and explorer were well publicized during his lifetime. He was the first to explore the geological and botanical diversity of remote regions of Central and Latin America and wrote detailed scientific reports about his findings. He is seen as one of the fathers of biogeography. Later on, his travel bug took him all the way across Russia and almost to China.
Late in life, the geniuses meet at the 1828 science congress in Berlin. However, the encounter didn't quite live up to the expectations built over many years of knowing of each other's work in the same area of science. Kehlmann brings his subjects close to the reader by focusing on a series of episodes from each of their lives, alternating between the two. Written in a lively style, he endears us to their personalities, bringing out their strengths and foibles. He introduces us to their scientific findings in a light-hearted easy-going way that capture the essence without overburdening the reader. Rather than creating long section of dialogue, he lets his protagonists express themselves in indirect dialogue. Allusions to contemporary events and issues are sprinkled throughout the narrative and add an often funny commentary.
Measuring the World is a great read and highly recommended.
Daniel Kehlmann Credit Sven Paustian The Humboldt chapters — with their physical dangers, odd flora, and cameos by notables like Goethe and Jefferson — supply much of the narrative excitement. Portraying a stay-at-home mathematician’s mind is more challenging, but Kehlmann provides just enough geometry and physics to represent Gauss’s inventive rigor and odd foresight without losing barely numerate readers. By treating the two men together, Kehlmann not only contrasts the inductive and deductive, the experimental and the imaginative, but also shows how these methods are connected to very different though occasionally similar sensibilities. Humboldt is ecstatic when his mother dies, allowing him to leave Prussia.
Gauss’s mother lives with him for the last 22 years of her life. Swashbuckling adventurer Humboldt seems asexual.
Pure mathematician Gauss is obsessed with women. His troubles with two wives and sets of children rival Humboldt’s problems with colonials and natives. Humboldt is eternally optimistic about social progress. Gauss looks at the stars and sees entropy. Although Humboldt and Gauss were extremely ambitious and highly serious, Kehlmann often presents them humorously.
Gauss’s physical complaints and atrocious manners are continually amusing. Humboldt’s resistance to women and unwitting insults to others are equally funny.
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The scientists’ dialogues with lesser intelligences — and even with each other — often sound like the non sequiturs in “Waiting for Godot.” Kehlmann gives ample credit to his characters’ discoveries — they were two of the most renowned scientists of their time — but his treatment humanizes their authoritarian public personas. Kehlmann includes Gauss’s confusion about statistics and his attraction to spiritualism, and he suggests that Humboldt may have exaggerated several of his exploits. With these not-so-distant mirror characters, Kehlmann usefully reminds us that our own universal geniuses and vaunted measurements of the world will be superseded — and will look comic to people in the next century.
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