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The Conformist
- mitchbob 1y agoReview of Daniel Kehlmann's latest novel, The Director, >which documents the little compromises that led G.W. Pabst, like millions of other people, to accept fascism. Also discusses his Measuring the World (2005): >The book is structured around the parallel lives of the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss and the scientist-explorer Alexander von Humboldt, intellectual giants whose lives in the early nineteenth century could not have seemed more different. https://archive.ph/xKgm5 https://archive.ph/xKgm5