丈量世界
Die Vermessung der Welt
Daniel Kehlmann · 初版 2005 年
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奥地利青年作家Daniel Kehlmann取材自启蒙时代两位天才的生平，构思出一部精妙且风趣温和的小说。十八世纪末，两位德国青年启程去丈量世界。其中一人是普鲁士贵族Alexander von Humboldt，他穿行于稀树草原与丛林之间，顺流探访奥里诺科河，亲尝毒药，攀登人类已知最高的高山，数头上的虱子，并探索地下的每一个洞穴。另一人则是几乎不通世故的数学家兼天文学家Carl Friedrich Gauss，他甚至无需离开哥廷根的家中……
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……德语书名，手机上懒得去查了）他绝对是个很有才华的作家，我最喜欢的是他的非历史题材作品。老实说，当年他凭《丈量世界》（Die Vermessung der Welt）在德语圈成为畅销书作家时，我虽然读得挺开心，但觉得他有点迎合大众、流于浅薄。他的其他作品倒是给了我很大惊喜。声明一下，我这是一个平时极少看书的人的看法，并不是……
…book titles in german, too lazy to look up on mobile) He is a talented writer for sure, and I enjoy him the most in his non-historic works. tbh, when he became a best selling author in German with his "Die Vermessung der Welt", I enjoyed the book but considered him a somewhat audience-pleasing and shallow author. His other books pleasantly surprised me. Disclaimer, saying this as someone who reads much too rarely, not a…
……读者的话，它就不会被从德语翻译成法语，对吧？（我瞎猜的：要是我说错了请指正。）我接触过的最后一本被译成英文且大受欢迎的德语小说是《丈量世界》（Die Vermessung der Welt / Measuring the world）。我脑海中冒出的第一部德语科幻是……《织毯匠》（Die Haarteppichknüpfer，1995 年的神作）：不知道它的英文版卖得好不好。科幻小说嘛，就跟犯罪小说一样，……
…readers then it won't get translated from German into French, say? (I'm just guessing: please correct me if I'm wrong.) The last German novel I encountered as a popular book in English translation was "Die Vermessung der Welt" / "Measuring the world". The first German science fiction that comes to my mind ... "Die Haarteppichknüpfer" (great book from 1995): no idea if it sold well in English. Science fiction, like crime fiction,…