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“Lifting Fog” (title translated by AI)
Christian Haller (born 1943)
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Copenhagen, 1925. A man appears in the cone of light of a street lamp, disappears into the dark and reappears in the light of the next lamp. Where was he in between? The scene leads its observer, Werner Heisenberg, towards a theory that will create a completely new picture of the world: quantum mechanics. The man in the dark knows nothing of the part he has played in the discovery of new physical laws: he is trying to come to terms with the loss of his wife and to give his life a new direction. Following both lives, linked only by chance, the novella asks how reliable our perception is, what we can know, and how to describe the indescribable.
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About the book
- Form
- Novella
- Length
- 122 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Denmark, 1925
- First published
- 2023 by Luchterhand Literaturverlag
- Author's age
- 80 when first published
- ISBN
9783630877334 (original)