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When We Cease to Understand the World (Labatut)
fiction
Labatut's 2020 predecessor to The Maniac continues to be widely read in 2024-25. Quantum mechanics history as literary terror.
From Wikipedia
When We Cease to Understand the World is a 2020 book by Chilean writer Benjamín Labatut. Originally written in Spanish and published by Anagrama, the book was translated into English by Adrian Nathan West and published by Pushkin Press and New York Review of Books in 2021. It describes the life of scientists who worked to revolutionize science and its related fields, and explores the themes of sacrifice.