by Daniel Kehlmann · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782742765454
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«Les Arpenteurs du monde» is the historical novel by Daniel Kehlmann, published by Actes Sud in paperback, 298 pages, in French.
In 1828, the explorer Alexander von Humboldt convinces the mathematician and astronomer Carl Friedrich Gauss, reluctant to travel, to leave Göttingen and attend a congress in Berlin. The novel interweaves the lives of these two German scholars and shows their opposing ways of knowing and measuring the world: adventure on the ground versus abstract calculation.
The work was published in German in 2005 as «Die Vermessung der Welt»; this French edition of 2007, translated by Juliette Aubert, belongs to the Lettres Allemandes collection.
It will appeal to readers of historical fiction and fiction about science and thought.
Daniel Kehlmann is a German-language novelist and playwright of both Austrian and German nationality.
