Ken Krimstein & Gil Roth—Einstein in Kafkaland

Name: Ken Krimstein & Gil Roth—Einstein in Kafkaland
Start: 2024-11-14T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-14T19:30:00-05:00
Location: Labyrinth Books Princeton

Schedule

Thu Nov 14 2024 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

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Labyrinth Books Princeton | Princeton, NJ

From the award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein, a graphic narrative revealing the pivotal year in Prague when Einstein became “Einstein,” Franz Kafka became “Kafka,” and the world changed forever.
During the year that Prague was home to both Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka, from 1911-1912, the trajectory of the two men’s lives wove together in uncanny ways—as did their shared desire to tackle the world’s biggest questions in Europe’s strangest city. In stunning words and pictures, Einstein in Kafkaland reveals the untold story of how their worlds wove together in a cosmic battle for new kinds of truth.
For Einstein, his lost year in Prague became a critical bridge to set him on the path to what many consider the greatest scientific discovery of all time, his General Theory of Relativity. And for Kafka, this charmed year was a bridge to writing his first masterpiece, The Judgment. Based on diaries, lectures, letters, and papers from this period amid a planet electrifying itself into modernity, Einstein in Kafkaland brings to life the emergence of a new world where art and science come together in ways we still grapple with today.
Ken Krimstein is a cartoonist, author, and educator whose work appears in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Chicago Tribune. His 2021 book, When I Grow Up – The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers has been named an NPR Best Book of the Year, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year and Top Ten Graphic Novel of 2021, and a Chicago Tribune Fall "Best Read." His 2018 book The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt won the Bernard J. Brommel Award for Biography and Memoir and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Gil Roth is the creator and host of The Virtual Memories Show, a podcast featuring his conversations with writers, artists, cartoonists, critics, musicians, and other creative people. His zine Haiku for Business Travelers collects poems, essays, photography, and fiction.
This event is cosponsored by Labyrinth Books and The Princeton Public Library.