D'Alembert's Principle: A Novel in Three Panels - Softcover
As the scientist D'Alembert nears the end of his life, he looks back on his friendships with Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Denis Diderot and mourns his unrequited love for a woman who spent years deceiving him. At the same time, an exiled Jacobite dreams of journeying to the planets, and in a prison cell two unlikely captives discuss love, language, and fate. Meticulously crafted, D'Alembert's Principle is a fascinating historical triptych about memory, reason, and imagination set in the rich and lavish world of eighteenth-century Europe.
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"Complex, intriguing...the exhilaration [Crumey] brings to narrative is rare." --John Perry, San Francisco Chronicle
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"The legacies of D'Alembert, Ferguson and Goldmann, a principle, a vision and a story, combine to create a portrait of the 18th century European mind stretched thin between the heart and the stars." --Los Angeles Times
"Inventive, playful...[D'Alembert's Principle is] a confection that is at once elegant, provocative and thoroughly entertaining." --Merle Rubin, The Wall Street Journal
"Proceeding from poignancy and awe to hilarity, the three parts constitute an intellectual treat." --Booklist
Andrew Crumey studied theoretical physics and mathematics at St. Andrews University and Imperial College, and did postdoctoral research at Leeds University on nonlinear dynamics. He is the author of two other novels, Music, In a Foreign Language and Pfitz, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year (both Picador). He lives in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0312204019
- ISBN 13 9780312204013
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages208
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