Highbrow/Low Commitment Book Club: When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
book club
book discussion
A bimonthly book club for the busy featuring literary fiction around 200 pages or less.
Our inaugural selection is When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut, translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West (188 pages). 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 unimaginable suffering. The lines are never clear.
Club meets in person at the Clinton Hill branch every other month. Register online for updates and reminders.
Copies of the book are available for pick up at the library's front desk.
380 Washington Ave. at Lafayette Ave.
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02/15/2025 02:00 pm
02/15/2025 03:30 pm
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Highbrow/Low Commitment Book Club: When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
<p>A bimonthly book club for the busy featuring literary fiction around 200 pages or less. </p><p>Our inaugural selection is <em>When We Cease to Understand the World</em> by Benjamín Labatut, translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West (188 pages). A book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction.</p><p>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 unimaginable suffering. The lines are never clear.</p>
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