The Collected Short Stories of Lewis Carroll
Découvrez l’esprit unique de Lewis Carroll à travers ses nouvelles les plus ingénieuses : énigmes mathématiques, dialogues philosophiques et humour absurde.
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A Tangled Tale
Bruno's Revenge and Other Stories
What the Tortoise Said to Achilles
A Tangled Tale is a collection of ten brief humorous stories by Lewis Carroll, published serially between April 1880 and March 1885.The stories, or Knots as Carroll calls them, present mathematical problems. In a later issue, Carroll gives the solution to a Knot and discusses readers' answers. The mathematical interpretations of the Knots are not always straightforward. The ribbing of readers answering wrongly - giving their names - was not always well received.
Short story "Bruno's Revenge" was originally published in 1867. Some years later, in 1873 or 1874, Carroll had the idea to use this piece as the core for a longer story. Much of the rest of the novel he compiled from notes of ideas and dialogue which he had collected over the years.
What the Tortoise Said to Achilles, written by Lewis Carroll in 1895 for the philosophical journal Mind, is a brief dialogue which problematises the foundations of logic. The title alludes to one of Zeno's paradoxes of motion, in which Achilles could never overtake the tortoise in a race. In Carroll's dialogue, the tortoise challenges Achilles to use the force of logic to make him accept the conclusion of a simple deductive argument. Ultimately, Achilles fails, because the clever tortoise leads him into an infinite regression.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898), was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer.
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Table of Contents:
A Tangled Tale
Bruno's Revenge and Other Stories
What the Tortoise Said to Achilles
A Tangled Tale is a collection of ten brief humorous stories by Lewis Carroll, published serially between April 1880 and March 1885.The stories, or Knots as Carroll calls them, present mathematical problems. In a later issue, Carroll gives the solution to a Knot and discusses readers' answers. The mathematical interpretations of the Knots are not always straightforward. The ribbing of readers answering wrongly - giving their names - was not always well received.
Short story "Bruno's Revenge" was originally published in 1867. Some years later, in 1873 or 1874, Carroll had the idea to use this piece as the core for a longer story. Much of the rest of the novel he compiled from notes of ideas and dialogue which he had collected over the years.
What the Tortoise Said to Achilles, written by Lewis Carroll in 1895 for the philosophical journal Mind, is a brief dialogue which problematises the foundations of logic. The title alludes to one of Zeno's paradoxes of motion, in which Achilles could never overtake the tortoise in a race. In Carroll's dialogue, the tortoise challenges Achilles to use the force of logic to make him accept the conclusion of a simple deductive argument. Ultimately, Achilles fails, because the clever tortoise leads him into an infinite regression.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898), was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer.
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Ce recueil offre une plongée dans l’univers unique de Lewis Carroll, où se mêlent humour absurde, énigmes mathématiques et réflexions philosophiques. Les histoires, comme A Tangled Tale ou What the Tortoise Said to Achilles, défient la logique tout en captivant par leur créativité. Parfait pour les amateurs de littérature qui aiment être surpris et stimulés intellectuellement.
Les thèmes centraux incluent la logique et ses paradoxes, l’absurdité du langage, et les jeux de mots. Carroll explore aussi la relation entre réalité et imagination, ainsi que les limites de la déduction et de la raison. Ses récits, souvent humoristiques, invitent à une remise en question des certitudes.
Ce livre s’adresse aux amateurs de littérature classique et fantastique, aux passionnés de mathématiques et de logique, ainsi qu’aux curieux en quête d’histoires originales et décalées. Il plaît autant aux adultes qu’aux jeunes lecteurs aimant les défis intellectuels.
Vous pourrez interroger le smartbook sur les solutions des énigmes mathématiques proposées dans A Tangled Tale, sur les références philosophiques de What the Tortoise Said to Achilles, ou encore sur les inspirations et le contexte de création des nouvelles. Le chat permet aussi d’approfondir l’analyse des personnages et des thèmes.
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