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Danielle McClellan
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The MANIAC by Benjamin Labatut is an ambitious work that falls squarely into the category of fiction of ideas. This is the first book written in English by the Chilean author, whose last novel When We Cease to Understand the World, translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West, was included on the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2021. In his novels, Labatut creates fictional explorations of the minds of real mathematicians and scientists and traces the development of scientific thought. He is unimpressed by questions of demarcation between fiction and nonfiction, stating, "Anything that comes out of a writer is fiction," and The MANIAC uses a mixture of forms associated with fiction and nonfiction writing.
The MANIAC is divided into three sections: the first is a straightforward, biographical account of the life and death of Austrian physicist Paul Ehrenfest, who in ...
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