A wise and sprightly epic of ruin and renewal in rural Corsica - winner of the Prix Goncourt.
Ferrari Jerome Books
Jérôme Ferrari is a French author whose work delves into the depths of history and philosophy. His writing is marked by a strong sense of place and time, often exploring themes of collapse, faith, and the human condition amidst grand societal shifts. Ferrari's style is both evocative and incisive, prompting readers to contemplate the complexities of human destiny and the echoes of the past in the present.
A devastating novel of the Algerian War, brutally relevant to current conflicts - by the winner of the 2012 Prix Goncourt.
The Principle
- 135 pages
- 5 hours of reading
A finalist for the 2018 French-American Foundation Translation Prize in Fiction A challenging read that encourages reflection, The Principle examines a world inching closer to its own destruction. Overpopulation, nuclear war, fascism, contemporary capitalism, and climate crisis all play roles in this epistolary novel in which a young philosopher grapples with the life of Werner Heisenberg, the Nobel Prize-winning German physicist. As he examines the dark historical events of the early 20th century alongside the luminous elegance of Heisenberg's theoretical work, the narrator provides an intimate account of his own youthful struggles and desperate attempts to make sense of a fractured, globalized world. How could a man with such a beautiful mind have participated in such atrocities? J r me Ferrari offers a compelling, unflinching vision of the failings of European culture. The Principle is a hypnotic glimpse into the mysteries of the physical world and a deeply personal historical interrogation that will remind readers of Laurent Binet's HHhH and Michael Frayn's Tony Award-winning play Copenhagen.