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La novela alemana de mayor éxito desde El Perfume, traducida a más de 40 idiomas y con más de 6 millones de ejemplares vendidos en todo el mundo.
Prólogo de Juan Gabriel Vásquez.

«La medición del mundo, además de una suerte de picaresca desopilante, es una brillante reflexión sobre la ficción, el pasado y la manera como lo contamos: una reflexión, en fin, sobre lo que hacemos cuando inventamos ficción, en particular sobre el pasado». Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Ciencia y literatura se dan la mano en esta novela inteligentemente entretejida en la que Daniel Kehlmann, uno de los autores más importantes de la literatura alemana contemporánea, resucita las fascinantes personalidades de dos eruditos: Alexander von Humboldt y Carl Friedrich Gauss.

A finales del siglo XVIII, estos dos jóvenes alemanes se embarcaron en la descomunal empresa de medir el mundo. Alexander von Humboldt, un naturalista, viajero y aventurero empedernido de inagotable curiosidad, exploró nuestro planeta y se abrió paso por las selvas y estepas, navegó por el Orinoco y probó toda clase de venenos. Carl Friedrich Gauss, un hombre nacido en la pobreza y posteriormente reconocido como el más importante matemático desde Newton, era capaz de abandonar el lecho conyugal en plena noche nupcial para anotar una fórmula matemática. En 1828, ya mayores, estos dos genios de la Ilustración alemana se reencuentran en Berlín, donde evocan juntos los años de su juventud y aventuras pasadas.

La medición del mundo, el mayor best seller en lengua alemana después de El perfume, ampliamente galardonada y traducida a más de 40 idiomas, es una novela que se distingue por un humor sutil y una fina ironía, pero también por una caracterización de los personajes, una amenidad y un encanto inolvidables. En lugar de ensalzar a estos personajes históricos, el autor nos muestra estos genios excéntricos en todas sus facetas: con sus grandezas y sus errores, sus pequeñas manías y sus debilidades y anhelos, entre la soledad y el amor, el fracaso y el éxito, y consigue de este modo un retrato humano inédito, lleno de luces y de sombras.

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Measuring the World marks the debut of a glorious new talent on the international scene. Young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann's brilliant comic novel revolves around the meeting of two colossal geniuses of the Enlightenment.

Toward the end of the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world. One of them, the Prussian aristocrat Alexander von Hum-boldt, negotiates savanna and jungle, travels down the Orinoco, tastes poisons, climbs the highest mountain known to man, counts head lice, and explores every hole in the ground. The other, the barely socialized mathematician and astronomer Carl Friedrich Gauss, does not even need to leave his home in Göttingen to prove that space is curved. He can run prime numbers in his head. He cannot imagine a life without women, yet he jumps out of bed on his wedding night to jot down a mathematical formula. Von Humboldt is known to history as the Second Columbus. Gauss is recognized as the greatest mathematical brain since Newton. Terrifyingly famous and more than eccentric in their old age, the two meet in Berlin in 1828. Gauss has hardly climbed out of his carriage before both men are embroiled in the political turmoil sweeping through Germany after Napoleon's fall.

Already a huge best seller in Germany, Measuring the World marks the debut of a glorious new talent on the international scene.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9788439743019
  • Publisher: Prh Grupo Editorial
  • Publisher Imprint: Literatura Random House
  • Height: 228 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Spine Width: 28 mm
  • Width: 130 mm
  • ISBN-10: 8439743017
  • Publisher Date: 20 Aug 2024
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: Spanish
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 340 gr


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