The Human Touch

Our Part in the Creation of a Universe

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Michael Frayn

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Mankind, scientists agree, is a tiny and insignificant anomaly in the impersonal vastness of the universe. But what would that universe be like if we were not here to say something about it? Without human beings there would be no words or language. Would there still be numbers, if there were no one to count them? Or scientific laws, if there were no words or numbers in which to express them? Would the universe even be vast, without the very fact of our tininess and insignificance to give it scale? The paradox is what Michael Frayn calls the 'the world's oldest mystery.' He shows how fleeting our contacts with the world around us are. The world is what we make of it. In which case, though, what are we? Conceptual questions of this nature have been the driving force behind many of Michael Frayn's novels and plays. In the book, with peerless wit and astonishing lucidity, he turns to confront them head-on.

Author Biography:

Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer. His novels include Towards the End of the Morning, The Trick of It and A Landing on the Sun. Headlong was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize, Whitbread Novel Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. His thirteen plays range from Noises Off to Copenhagen, and he has translated a number of works, mostly from Russian. He is married to the biographer and critic Claire Tomalin.

Release date Australia

September 6th, 2007

Author

Michael Frayn

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Edition

Main

Pages

512

Dimensions

126x198x32

ISBN-13

9780571232185

Product ID

2457294

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