As mentioned Denis Guedj I really like. I love the way he skillfully mixing archeology, history, mathematics and philosophy, I like his style, I love her stories. I have read several of his novels and me and everyone 'liked most of the previous year. Except this.
When I started this book I was very disappointed. Tells five stories, five "reincarnation" in later times with the same woman: Aemer. Ur, Babylon, Baghdad, the Gulf War. These five stories have the background to the discovery, or rather the invention of 0, and its role in mathematics.
starting the story of reincarnation I do not like. It seems to me one of those little tricks that writers use fantasy to make their work more appealing, often without success. In this case, even if in fact not at odds, it seems that the repetition of the same character in the five stories to the novel takes something away instead to add it.
also bothered me the figure of the protagonist, this beautiful woman, almost divine in its perfect features. I'm tired of women beautiful and perfect. Aemer seems to me both by advertising one of those girls: beautiful, intelligent, in many of the stories with a job or an important social role, solves its problems and those of others with grace and wisdom. Treated as a postcard too, nice to look at, but too fake to be true. I feel like real characters, in the round, perhaps unpleasant, even stupid, but true.
Beyond 'I find that the personal antipathies of the major flaws of this book is the brevity of the stories. Guedj, a teacher in the novels, it seems forced the structure of the short story, not to dwell too leaves out elements of which the reader feels the lack (or the level of plot, or the level of scientific explanations or the environment). The idea is good, and the history of zero is certainly fascinating, but would have to develop it more, more calmly.
bad, but if that one book was a series of novels (to Ramses, to understand) we would gain immensely.
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