Tesla: A Portrait with Masks

The novel follows the life of the inventor Nikola Tesla, mixing documentary material with emigrant stories and oral tales from his native Lika to build a psychological portrait of its hero. His biography becomes a chronicle of one of the greatest changes in human history, across several countries on two continents: the world changed less from Plato to Tesla's birth than from his birth to his death, from the Homeric gusle player to flight on a blue ray of energy. The young man who slept with rubber under his bed in Budapest, the visionary of underground railways and rooftop advertising, the dreamer of free energy who turned experiments into shows, appears among the many masks that later culture gave him.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

420 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Croatia, Hungary, United States

First published

2008 by Agora

Author's age

48 when first published

ISBN

9788684599829 (original)

9781555976972 (Graywolf Press, United States)

9788660533311 (Agora, Serbia)