Summary
Vladimir Pištalo: Tesla, a portrait among masks
Nino Prize winner.
"The most interesting and clearest Tesla story ever told."
THE STORY OF THE ILLUSION OF PROGRESS THAT REPLACED THE ILLUSION OF GOD
The world changed less from Plato to Tesla's birth than from Tesla's birth to his death. It's hard not to be fascinated by the story of the historic leap from Homeric violinist to flying on a blue ray of energy - in just one human century! This novel combines fresco and icon, saga and intimacy. Tesla's biography is an inspired chronicle of one of the greatest changes in human history, in several countries, on two continents.
The story of Tesla is the story of an era. In Budapest, he used to put a tire under the bed to avoid vibrations. He was a symbolist and decadent before Degecent and Baron De Montesquieu. In feverish insomnia and lightning flashes in the laboratory, he was a futurist before Marinetti. The subway under the city and the advertisements on the roofs are his works. Chaplin's vagabond Charlo reminded him of him while digging trenches. Federsen, master of Fritz Lang's Metropolis, was himself again. The mad scientist with his coils in Frankenstein was him. Didn't he, before Breton, listen to the geomagnetic pulse of the Earth?
The reader is therefore presented with the most convincing biography of the only thunderer among men.
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