Dalembert's Principle - Softcover

Crumey, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312204019 ISBN 13: 9780312204013

Publisher: St Martin's Press, 1999

Synopsis

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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Review

"Swift who relished every storyteller's ruse and mocked the pomp of scholarship would have enjoyed the Scottish writer Andrew Crumey." Boyd Tonkin in The New Stateman

" D'Alembert's Principle is certainly another beautifully composed work which lets you glide through the story but afterwards leaves you asking questions, looking for connections and puzzling, quite happily, for hours." Rosemary Goring in Scotland on Sunday

"Crumey is one of my three or four favourite modern writers - a wise, funny, alert and original novelist who has never disappointed." Jonathan Coe

About the Author

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martin's Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0312204019
• ISBN 13: 9780312204013
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208