Juliette Aubert-Affholder Książki

Everything in QualityLand is geared towards optimizing your life. QualityPartner identifies your ideal mate, earworm personal assistants get you where you need to go and android drones know you need a six pack of beer at the end of a long day even before you crave one. Humans, robots and algorithms co-exist, everything is seamlessly corporatised, stratified and monetized. Your very name reveals much of what we need to know about you and your profile discloses the rest. Peter Jobless is a down and out metal press operator, dumped by his long term girlfriend when she is alerted to a better option on her QualityPad. But Peter has another problem - he seems to be the only one noticing that his fellow Qualityland robot citizens are experiencing an existential crisis. There is a drone who's afraid to fly. A sex droid with erectile dysfunction. A combat robot with PTSD. Instructed to destroy these malfunctioning A.I., Peter starts to suspect the technology that rules us all has a flaw, perhaps a fatal one. Not only that, these robots might be his only friends...

Measuring the World recreates the parallel but contrasting lives of two geniuses of the German Enlightenment - the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss. Towards the end of the 18th century, these two brilliant young Germans set out to measure the world. Humboldt, a Prussian aristocrat schooled for greatness, negotiates savannah and jungle, climbs the highest mountain then known to man, counts head lice on the heads of the natives, and explores every hole in the ground. Gauss, a man born in poverty who will be recognised as the greatest mathematician since Newton, does not even need to leave his home in Göttingen to know that space is curved. He can run prime numbers in his head, cannot imagine a life without women and yet jumps out of bed on his wedding night to jot down a mathematical formula. 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.

Comment devient-on magicien ? Voici l’histoire d’un jeune homme qui découvre son talent et se voue tout entier à lui. Mais la vie de l’illusionniste sera bouleversée le jour où il réussira son plus grand tour. Daniel Kehlmann joue brillamment avec la frontière mouvante et fascinante entre le monde du possible et celui des illusions. Son récit se métamorphose peu à peu, lui aussi, en un irrésistible tour de magie. Dans ce premier roman de 1997, entièrement revu en 2007, Kehlmann maîtrise déjà les caractéristiques de son style qui lui ont permis de conquérir un nombre phénoménal de lecteurs : tout en exerçant son esprit philosophique, il se montre toujours élégant, clair et plein de verve.

Ein Schriftsteller mit der unheilvollen Neigung, Menschen, die ihm nahestehen, zu Literatur zu machen, ein verwirrter Internetblogger, ein Abteilungsleiter mit Doppelleben, ein berühmter Schauspieler, der lieber unbekannt wäre, eine alte Dame auf der Reise in den Tod: Ihre Wege kreuzen sich in einem Geflecht von Episoden zwischen Wirklichkeit und Schein. Ein Spiegelkabinett voll unvorhersehbarer Wendungen – komisch, tiefgründig und elegant erzählt vom Autor der «Vermessung der Welt». «Daniel Kehlmann hat mit seinem neuen Roman Weltliteratur geschaffen.» (Die Weltwoche)