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📗 Libro en inglés EINSTEIN IN KAFKALAND

BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING USA- 9781635579536

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Sinopsis de EINSTEIN IN KAFKALAND

Clever charming amusing and just plain brilliant Ken Krimstein is the most inventive graphic biographer on the planet and certainly the only one who could explain both Einstein and Kafka A page turner on gravity and relativity Kai Bird Pulitzer Prize winning co author of American Prometheus the biography that inspired the Oscar winning film Oppenheimer From the award winning New Yorker cartoonist a graphic narrative revealing the pivotal year in Prague when Einstein became Einstein Franz Kafka became Kafka and the world changed forever 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 letter

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Editorial: Bloomsbury Publishing Usa

ISBN: 9781635579536

Idioma: Inglés

Número de páginas: 224

Tiempo de lectura:
4h 35m

Encuadernación: Tapa dura

Fecha de lanzamiento: 20/08/2024

Año de edición: 2024


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Escrito por Ken Krimstein


Ken Krimstein (Evanston, 1958) es escritor, dibujante, profesor universitario y director creativo. Sus caricaturas han aparecido en medios tan relevantes como The New Yorker, Barron’s, The Harvard Business Review, Prospect Magazine, Punch, The National Lampoon, el Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune y Narrative Magazine, y en su faceta literaria ha contribuido con textos humorísticos a The New York Observer y McSweeney’s, entre otros. En 2010 recopiló una selección de sus caricaturas en torno a los judíos en el libro titulado Kvetch As Kvetch Can, y en 2018 lanzó la que hasta la fecha es su obra con mayor éxito entre público y crítica, Las tres vidas de Hannah Arendt (Salamandra Graphic, 2021).

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