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Sto caricando le informazioni... A Game with Sharpened Knives (2005)di Neil Belton
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This is a novel based on the life of Erwin Shrodinger, one of the giants of 20th-century scientific thought. 1938, Germany invaded Austria and Schrodinger was dismissed from his university post. The Prime Minister of Ireland at the time, Eamon de Valera, was a mathematician and invited Schrodinger to join the newly established Institute for Advanced Studies in Dublin. Schrodinger emigrated there with few possessions and little money. He remained for 17 years, often turning his attention to philosophical questions about physics and its relationship to other fields. immense power, brilliantly evoking the isolated Ireland of the Second World War as well as the character of a complicated genius. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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A fascinating, multilayered novel about the physicist Erwin Schrödinger moving to Ireland in 1941, with his wife, and his lady friend, and his daughter by his lady friend, and how he falls in love yet again (informal polygamy rather than polyamory); there are a lot of bicycles, and a few cats (though perhaps not as many as you might have expected), and a real sense of the dreary claustrophobia of Dublin during WW2 (or "The Emergency" as it was known locally), and of the horrors of fascism on the continent and of the terrors of theoretical physics as a discipline. It draws quite a lot on Walter Moore's 1989 biography but Belton makes the story all his own.
I twitched a bit at a few of the historical details - conversations about William Rowan Hamilton (the great nineteenth century Irish mathematician) tend to suggest that the characters have all read Hankins' biography, not published until 1980; and the de Valera of the book is, though cold and chilling, a somewhat nicer person than the one that I have encountered through biographers and historians. (Belton's fictional de Valera gets one of the best lines, talking of partitioned Ireland as "neither alive nor dead", thus echoing Schrödinger's most famous thought experiment.) Still, this is a novel, not a historical work, and it's forgiveable.
A lot of talk, and not a lot of action, but I rather enjoyed it. ( )