The Principle - Couverture souple

Ferrari, Jérôme

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1609453522 ISBN 13 : 9781609453527

Editeur : Europa Editions, 2017

Synopsis

A challenging read that encourages reflection, The Principle examines a world inching closer to it's own destruction. 

Overpopulation, nuclear war, fascism, contemporary capitalism, and climate crisis all play roles in this epistolary novel in which a young philosopher grapples with the life of Werner Heisenberg, the Nobel Prize-winning German physicist.
 
As he examines the dark historical events of the early 20th century alongside the luminous elegance of Heisenberg’s theoretical work, the narrator provides an intimate account of his own youthful struggles and desperate attempts to make sense of a fractured, globalized world. How could a man with such a beautiful mind have participated in such atrocities? Jérôme Ferrari offers a compelling, unflinching vision of the failings of European culture.
 
The Principle is a hypnotic glimpse into the mysteries of the physical world and a deeply personal historical interrogation that will remind readers of Laurent Binet’s HHhH and Michael Frayn’s Tony Award-winning play Copenhagen.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jérôme Ferrari is a writer and translator born in 1968 in Paris. His 2012 novel, The Sermon on the Fall of Rome, won the Prix Goncourt. He is also the author of Where I Left My Soul (MacLehose, 2012).

For Europa Editions, Howard Curtis has translated five novels by Jean-Claude Izzo, including all three books in his Marseilles trilogy, as well as fiction by Francisco Coloane, Canek Sánchez Guevara, Caryl Férey, and Santiago Gamboa.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Europa Editions
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1609453522
• ISBN 13: 9781609453527
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
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• Personne responsable: non disponible