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Einstein in Kafkaland : how Albert fell down the rabbit hole and came up with the universe / Ken Krimstein.

Krimstein, Ken, (author,, artist.).

Summary:

During the year that Prague was home to both Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka from 1911-1912, the trajectory of the two men's lives wove together in uncanny ways--as did their shared desire to tackle the world's biggest questions in Europe's strangest city. In stunning words and pictures, Einstein in Kafkaland reveals the untold story of how their worlds wove together in a cosmic battle for new kinds of truth. For Einstein, his lost year in Prague became a critical bridge set him on the path to what many consider the greatest scientific discovery of all time, his General Theory of Relativity. And for Kafka, this charmed year was a bridge to writing his first masterpiece, The Judgment. Based on diaries, lectures, letters, and papers from this period amid a planet electrifying itself into modernity, Einstein in Kafkaland brings to life the emergence of a new world where art and science come together in ways we still grapple with today.

Record details

ISBN: 1635579538
ISBN: 9781635579536
Physical Description: ix, 214 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024.
Copyright: ©2024

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-211).
Formatted Contents Note:	This much is true -- Overture -- Down the rabbit hole -- Pool of tears -- Meet Max Abraham -- People are so happy here -- Berta Fanta's mad tea party -- Heeeeere's Mileava -- Berta Fanta's mad tea afterparty -- Let's bend light -- Crime of the century -- Albert and Paul's lost weekend -- Duel of the pens -- A knock at the door -- WTF -- Einstein's unified theory of it all -- Coda.