The principle
By: Jérôme Ferrari ; translated from the French by Howard Curtis
Contributors: Curtis, Howard, 1949- translator
Publisher: Europa Editions
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9781609453527
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Good and evil; Heisenberg uncertainty principle; Physicists; World War, 1939-1945; Science; Fiction; Nuclear warfare
Work titles: Principe
Description: Beguiled by the figure of German physicist Werner Heisenberg, who disrupted the assumptions of quantum mechanics with his notorious Uncertainty Principle, earning him the Nobel Prize in physics in 1932, a young, disenchanted philosopher attempts to right his own intellectual and emotional course and take the measure of the evil at work in the contemporary world. In this critically acclaimed novel, Jerome Ferrari takes stock of European culture's failings during the 20th century and inserts their implications into a compelling vision of the contemporary world. His story is one of eternal returns, of a perpetual fall of Icarus the inevitably compromised meeting between a man's soul and the mysterious beauty of the world.
Notes: Translation of: Le principe.

Translated from the French.