Hopeful monsters
By: Nicholas Mosley ; introduction by Sven Birkerts.
Edition: 1st Dalkey Archive pbk. ed.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: [Illinois]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 550
Subjects: Physicists -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Hopeful Monsters is a tour de force of intellect and eros - one in which Albert Einstein taunts a lecture hall full of Nazis and Ludwig Wittgenstein is an awkward guest at an English garden party. It is a love story in which a young English physicist and a German-Jewish anthropologist pursue each other across landscapes that range from Hitler's Germany to Los Alamos on the eve of the atomic age.

It is also a pyrotechnically accomplished novel of ideas in which communism, psychoanalytic theory, uncertainty, and relativity attain visceral emotional force and help us understand the cataclysms of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.