The Organs of Sense, Adam Ehrlich Sachs
The Organs of Sense, Adam Ehrlich Sachs
List: $17.99 | Sale: $12.59
Club: $8.99

The Organs of Sense

Author: Adam Ehrlich Sachs

Narrator: Andrew Wincott

Unabridged: 8 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/21/2019

Synopsis

In 1666, an astronomer makes a prediction shared by no one else in the world: at the stroke of noon on June 30th of that year, a solar eclipse will cast all of Europe into total darkness for four seconds. This astronomer is rumored to be using the largest telescope ever built, but he is also known to be blind—both of his eyes were plucked out under mysterious circumstances. Is he mad? Or does he, despite this impairment, have an insight denied the other scholars of his day? These questions intrigue the young Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz—not yet the world-renowned polymath who would go on to discover calculus but a nineteen-year-old whose faith in reason is shaky at best. Leibniz sets off to investigate the astronomer’s claim, and in the three hours before the eclipse occurs—or fails to occur—the astronomer tells the scholar the story behind his strange prediction: a tale that ends up encompassing kings and princes, family squabbles, insanity, art, loss, and the horrors of war.

About Adam Ehrlich Sachs

Adam Erlich Sachs is an esteemed author and semifinalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor and a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Having appeared in The New Yorker and Harper's Magazine, he was named a 2018 National Endowment of the Arts Literature Fellow. He has a degree in the history of science from Harvard and currently resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

About Andrew Wincott

Andrew Wincott is an experienced stage actor and voice artist. A graduate of Christ Church, Oxford, he trained at the Webber Douglas Academy. He has performed Shakespeare, Shaw, Shaffer, Moliere, and more, has twice been a member of the BBC Radio Drama Company, has created voices for countless computer games, and has recorded over a hundred audiobooks.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on June 30, 2024

I have a pet theory that Bernhard—either directly or through W. G. Sebald, his glum disciple—is the hidden influence behind a huge swath, maybe the main swath, of contemporary fiction. Adam Erlich Sachs -[URL not allowed] The Organs of Sense is clearly Bernhard influenced but a......more

Goodreads review by Gabe on April 24, 2020

Quite popular in contemporary lit is to write in the tradition that goes from Kleist to Walser to Kafka to Bernhard. Adam Ehrlich Sachs does this. He does it well. Despite being a direct descendant of Bernhard, and admitting to it, he shares very little with W.G. Sebald and Teju Cole. Sachs holds up......more

Goodreads review by Kim on January 29, 2020

This is, from the beginning, a delightful frolic through absurd philosophically circular syllogisms. Some readers will have little patience for the simple repetitious style of silly humor, but I loved it. In fact, if I were bedridden, and dependent on others to read to me, I would relish having some......more

Goodreads review by Sam on January 02, 2020

Adam Ehrlich Sachs has some skills and for me the fun of this book was seeing how long he could sustain what he started. In answer, he took it quite a distance and although the ending may leave some unfulfilled, it was a pleasure to watch Sachs get as far as he did. He starts off with the philosophe......more

Goodreads review by Jacob on January 26, 2023

In an account posted to Goodreads, an app that has innumerable annoyances, not only conceptually, but also in its interface, in which he had thought about posting a unique review that was consummately astute, a young Jacob Gane decided to write what follows as a kind of ad hoc musing over wtf he jus......more

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List