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Benjamin Labatut

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In When We Cease to Understand the World, Chilean author Benjamín Labatut blurs the line between fiction and nonfiction in his exploration of twentieth century scientific breakthroughs. Over the course of the novel, Labatut details the lives, loves, and pains of a variety of well-known scientists and mathematicians—including Karl Schwarzschild, Alexander Grothendieck, and Erwin Schrödinger—in order to weave a powerful and inextricable link between scientific progress and personal collapse. 

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