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When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2021Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize and the 2021 National Book Award for Translated LiteratureA fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining.When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger—these are some of luminaries into whose troubled lives Benjamín Labatut thrusts the reader, showing us how they grappled with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, alienate friends and lovers, descend into isolation and insanity. Some of their discoveries reshape human life for the better; others pave the way to chaos and...

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Author

Benjamin Labatut

Publisher

New York Review Books

Published

2021

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Fiction

Rating

4.4 / 5 (3,332 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14