- Fiction, Long Now Manual for Civilization, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, historical, general
The young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann conjures a brilliant and gently comic novel from the lives of two geniuses of the Enlightenment. Toward the end of the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world.
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- Author
- Daniel Kehlmann
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Círculo de Lectores, Can Yayinlari
- Editions
- 27
- Language
- vie, German, English, French
- ISBN
- 9780375424465
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“Im September 1828 verließ der größte Mathematiker des Landes zum erstenmal seit Jahren seine Heimatstadt, um am Deutschen Naturforscherkongreß in Berlin teilzunehmen.”
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