Jérôme Ferrari is a writer and translator born in 1968 in Paris. His 2012 novel, The Sermon on the Fall of Rome won the Prix Goncourt. He is also the author of Where I Left My Soul (MacLehose, 2012).
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Parisian writer Jérôme Ferrari plunges us into the world of Werner Heisenberg, Nobel Prize winner and physicist responsible for Nazi nuclear advancement, through a young philosopher attempting to come to terms with the balance of good and evil in the world. Deeply thought-provoking...— World Literature Today, May 10 2017![]()
Once upon a time there was Science. Pure of heart, untainted by the kingdom’s societal structures or geopolitical context, Science was simply Science: an apolitical quest for objective truth and beauty. Nearby there lurked a wolf, whose predatory ways and sinister motives led...— Public Books, Apr 19 2017![]()
Prix Goncourt-winning novelist Ferrari continues his program of interrogating history to expose brittle truths about our nature. In Where I Left My Soul (2012), not published in the U.S., Ferrari, a sometime professor of philosophy, took the occasion of the Algerian War and the...— Kirkus, Nov 24 2016
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