by Slavenka Drakulić · Tapa dura · ISBN 9789532668148
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«Mileva Einstein, teorija tuge» is the biographical novel by Slavenka Drakulić, published by Fraktura in hardcover (207 pages, in Croatian).
The novel reconstructs the life of Mileva Marić, a Serbian mathematician and Albert Einstein's first wife, from her youth in Vojvodina to maturity: her time at the Zurich Polytechnic, her marriage to the physicist, motherhood, and the losses that marked her. The «theory of sadness» is a metaphor for her struggle to make her way in a male-dominated science.
The work was first published in 2016; the cover subtitle is «roman». ISBN 9789532668148.
Aimed at readers of biographical fiction and those interested in the history of women in science, with a feminist perspective.
Slavenka Drakulić is a Croatian journalist, novelist, and essayist whose works on feminism, communism, and post-communism have been translated into many languages.
