Name: When we Cease to Understand the World
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Author: Benjamín Labatut
ISBN: 9781681375663

portada When we Cease to Understand the World

Type

Physical Book

Author

Benjamín Labatut

Translated by

Adrian Nathan West

Publisher

New York Review of Books

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

192

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.3 x 14.5 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.25 kg.

ISBN13

9781681375663

Synopsis "When we Cease to Understand the World"

One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2021Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize and the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining. When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger--these are some of luminaries into whose troubled lives Benjamín Labatut thrusts the reader, showing us how they grappled with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, alienate friends and lovers, descend into isolation and insanity. Some of their discoveries reshape human life for the better; others pave the way to chaos and unimaginable suffering. The lines are never clear. At a breakneck pace and with a wealth of disturbing detail, Labatut uses the imaginative resources of fiction to tell the stories of the scientists and mathematicians who expanded our notions of the possible.

Benjamín Labatut

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Es un autor chileno nacido en Holanda en 1980. Se crió en La Haya antes de establecerse en Chile, donde vive y trabaja. Es el autor de La Antárctica empieza aquí (2009), una colección de cuentos; Después de la luz (2016), una serie de notas científicas, filosóficas e históricas sobre el vacío; La piedra de la locura (2021), un díptico sobre la locura, el caos y la modernidad; y When We Cease to Understand the World (2021), un libro que explora el éxtasis y la agonía de los avances científicos y ha sido traducido a más de treinta idiomas.

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