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La medici�n del mundo / Measuring the World -Language: spanish

Kehlmann, Daniel; V�squez, Juan Gabriel (FRW); Blanco, Rosa Pilar (TRN)

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Kehlmann, Daniel

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La medicin del mundo / Measuring the World (Paperback)

Daniel Kehlmann

Published by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, 2024

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. La novela alemana de mayor exito desde El Perfume, traducida a mas de 40 idiomas y con mas de 6 millones de ejemplares vendidos en todo el mundo. Prologo de Juan Gabriel Vasquez. La medicion del mundo, ademas de una suerte de picaresca desopilante, es una brillante reflexion sobre la ficcion, el pasado y la manera como lo contamos: una reflexion, en fin, sobre lo que hacemos cuando inventamos ficcion, en particular sobre el pasado. Juan Gabriel Vasquez Ciencia y literatura se dan la mano en esta novela inteligentemente entretejida en la que Daniel Kehlmann, uno de los autores mas importantes de la literatura alemana contemporanea, resucita las fascinantes personalidades de dos eruditos: Alexander von Humboldt y Carl Friedrich Gauss. A finales del siglo XVIII, estos dos jovenes alemanes se embarcaron en la descomunal empresa de medir el mundo. Alexander von Humboldt, un naturalista, viajero y aventurero empedernido de inagotable curiosidad, exploro nuestro planeta y se abrio paso por las selvas y estepas, navego por el Orinoco y probo toda clase de venenos. Carl Friedrich Gauss, un hombre nacido en la pobreza y posteriormente reconocido como el mas importante matematico desde Newton, era capaz de abandonar el lecho conyugal en plena noche nupcial para anotar una formula matematica. En 1828, ya mayores, estos dos genios de la Ilustracion alemana se reencuentran en Berlin, donde evocan juntos los anos de su juventud y aventuras pasadas. La medicion del mundo, el mayor best seller en lengua alemana despues de El perfume, ampliamente galardonada y traducida a mas de 40 idiomas, es una novela que se distingue por un humor sutil y una fina ironia, pero tambien por una caracterizacion de los personajes, una amenidad y un encanto inolvidables. En lugar de ensalzar a estos personajes historicos, el autor nos muestra estos genios excentricos en todas sus facetas: con sus grandezas y sus errores, sus pequenas manias y sus debilidades y anhelos, entre la soledad y el amor, el fracaso y el exito, y consigue de este modo un retrato humano inedito, lleno de luces y de sombras.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONMeasuring the World marks the debut of a glorious new talent on the international scene. Young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmanns 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 Goettingen 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 Napoleons fall. Already a huge best seller in Germany, Measuring the World marks the debut of a glorious new talent on the international scene. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9788439743019

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