Die Vermessung der Welt
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Nota editorial O romance de Daniel Kehlmann de 2005 acompanha duas vidas em paralelo: Alexander von Humboldt, que na expedição americana de 1799 a 1804 sobe vulcões e sobe o Orinoco de canoa, e Carl Friedrich Gauss, que quase não sai de Göttingen e mede o mundo com a matemática. Os dois encontram-se finalmente em Berlim em 1828, duas celebridades envelhecidas com pouca paciência uma para a outra. Narrado quase todo em discurso indireto e com ironia seca, tornou-se um dos romances alemães mais vendidos desde a guerra; Detlev Buck adaptou-o ao cinema em 2012.
Sobre o livro
Measuring the World is a novel by German-Austrian author Daniel Kehlmann, published in 2005 by Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek. The novel re-imagines the lives of German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss and German geographer Alexander von Humboldt—who was accompanied on his journeys by French explorer Aimé Bonpland—and their many groundbreaking ways of taking the world's measure, as well as Humboldt's and Bonpland's travels in America and Humboldt's meeting with Gauss in 1828. One subplot fictionalises the conflict between Gauss and his son Eugene; while Eugene wanted to become a linguist, his father decreed that he study law. The book was a bestseller; by 2012, it had sold more than 2.3 million copies in Germany alone.