Kafka, Einstein, Kafeinski and Me by Kurth Hartmann

Kafka, Einstein, Kafeinski and Me by Kurth Hartmann  is a remarkable, intelligent book about the lives, existences and works about Franz Kafka and Albert Einstein.
No one knew if these two Jews shared some conversations together when Einstein lived in Prague.
The author of this book, mr. Hartmann is a physicist and he imagined probable conversations between Kafka and Einstein with the time. These friendship and these encounters and the following conversations  between these two brains, Herr Kafka and Herr Professor the most elevated ones. Never banal inspired by thematic like Einstein's theory of general relativity, but also art, books. Kafka seen sometimes to my point of view as a learner, enchanted by the visionary new ideas developed by Einstein.

At the beginning the book opens with another story in part pretty sensual. Frederick Kafeinski and the narrator are in Berlin during the Communist Wall that maybe for youngsters doesn't say anything but  de fact divided in two parts the city of Berlin during the Cold War between Russia and USA. If you tried to pass in the other part soldiers would have killed you in a second.
The atmosphere we meet is intense. The author introduces Berlin in a wonderful way, with its most succulent italian restaurants, atmosphere, monuments, cafè, cultural life. History, current events, love, friendship, a beautiful, intriguing woman called Ursula, sexual temptations, old love still strong at the passage of time, will be the main thematic of this first section of the book.

Later, after a lot of years without contacts Kafka will search again for Albert Einstein when in Berlin. We will discover that Kafka is seriously ill, Einstein an affirmed but also sometimes discriminated scientist.

The third part sees the phantoms of Einstein and Kafka reunited again after 100 years so that they can speak of their past lives  what happened after their departure trying to resolve also a mystery.

If you want to understand physics, if you are a fan of Franz Kafka this book is for you! I can tell you that.


Highly recommended.

I thank Troubador for the physical copy of this book.

Anna Maria Polidori