杏吧原创

In May 1742, Jean-Jaques Mussard found something horrible underneath his
rosebeds. Ma卯tre Mussard鈥檚 Bequest (Bloomsbury, 拢1, ISBN 0 7475 2894
2) recounts the experiments and spiralling thoughts that left the philosopher a
shell of his former self. From a minor passage in Rousseau鈥檚 Confessions,
Patrick S眉skind has spun a marvellous tale of scientific obsession in the
Enlightenment, published for 拢1 to celebrate Bloomsbury鈥檚 10th
birthday.