Name: When we Cease to Understand the World
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Author: Labatut, Benjamin ; West, Adrian Nathan
ISBN: 9781681375663

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Benjamín Labatut

Translated by

Adrian Nathan West

Publisher

New York Review of Books

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

192

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.3 x 14.5 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.25 kg.

ISBN13

9781681375663

Synopsis "When we Cease to Understand the World "

One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2021Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize and the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining. When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger--these are some of luminaries into whose troubled lives Benjamín Labatut thrusts the reader, showing us how they grappled with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, alienate friends and lovers, descend into isolation and insanity. Some of their discoveries reshape human life for the better; others pave the way to chaos and unimaginable suffering. The lines are never clear. At a breakneck pace and with a wealth of disturbing detail, Labatut uses the imaginative resources of fiction to tell the stories of the scientists and mathematicians who expanded our notions of the possible.

Benjamín Labatut

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He is a Chilean author born in the Netherlands in 1980. He grew up in The Hague before settling in Chile, where he lives and works. He is the author of Antarctica Starts Here (2009), a collection of stories; After the Light (2016), a series of scientific, philosophical, and historical notes on emptiness; The Stone of Madness (2021), a diptych on madness, chaos, and modernity; and When We Cease to Understand the World (2021), a book that explores the ecstasy and agony of scientific advancements and has been translated into more than thirty languages.

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