by Daniel Kehlmann · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467223385
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«La medición del mundo» is the historical novel by Daniel Kehlmann, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback, 275 pages, in Spanish.
The novel interweaves the lives of Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss: Humboldt travels through jungles, volcanoes and rivers on expeditions across still-uncharted territories, while Gauss revolutionises mathematics from a domestic life full of quirks. Kehlmann shows them with their achievements, eccentricities and contradictions, offering a humane and ironic look at two key figures of science and thought.
The German original, «Die Vermessung der Welt», was published in 2005; this Spanish edition, translated by Rosa Pilar Blanco, came out in 2007.
For readers of historical fiction and literary biographies who want a close, ironic portrait of two great minds.
Daniel Kehlmann is a German-language novelist and playwright of both Austrian and German nationality.
