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Measuring the World ( German: Die Vermessung der Welt) is a novel by 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 ...
- Daniel Kehlmann
- 304 (German hardcover edition), 272 (English hardcover edition)
- 2005
- September 2005
Oct 9, 2007 · Measuring the World combines biographic material on Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Frederick Gauss in a novel of their lives and interaction together. It is translated from the original German which perhaps adds to the confused and jumbled story line and time frames.
- Daniel Kehlmann
- $10.69
- Vintage
Jan 1, 2005 · 19,036 ratings1,360 reviews. The young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann conjures a brilliant and gently comic novel from the lives of two 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 Humboldt, negotiates savanna and ...
- (19K)
- Hardcover
Nov 5, 2006 · Nov. 5, 2006. What a wonderful country Germany must be. “Measuring the World,” which resembles nothing more American than a pint-size novel by Thomas Pynchon, displaced J. K. Rowling and Dan...
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- Daniel Kehlmann
Ebook. +. About Measuring the World. Measuring the World marks the debut of a glorious new talent on the international scene. Young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann’s brilliant comic novel revolves around the meeting of two colossal geniuses of the Enlightenment. Late in the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world.
Oct 4, 2010 · Measuring the World is a novel of rare charm and readability, distinguished by its sly humour and unforgettable characterization. It brings the two eccentric geniuses to life, their longings and their weaknesses, their balancing act between loneliness and love, absurdity and greatness, failure and success. Read more. Print length. 274 pages.
