EAN: 9780307277398

MEASURING THE WORLD - DANIEL KEHLMANN KARTONIER...

The brilliant debut novel by the author of The Director portrays the comic collision of two
radically different Enlightenment geniuses--one who explored the world in person  and the other
who pushed the boundaries of the universe in his own head.    "Kehlmann's lightly surreal style
[is] a mixture of comedy  romance  and the macabre  with flashes of magical realism that read
like Borges in the Black Forest." —The Washington Post Book World  " Addictively readable and
genuinely and deeply funny." —Los Angeles Times    Late in the eighteenth century  two young
Germans set out to measure the world. One of them  the aristocratic naturalist Alexander von
Humboldt  negotiates jungles  voyages down the Orinoco River  tastes poisons  climbs the
highest mountain known to man  counts head lice  and explores and measures every cave and hill
he comes across. The other  the reclusive and barely socialized mathematician Carl Friedrich
Gauss  can prove that space is curved without leaving his home. Terrifyingly famous and wildly
eccentric  these two polar opposites finally meet in Berlin in 1828  and are immediately
embroiled in the turmoil of the post-Napolean world.

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