Tesla, Portrait Among Masks

"The most interesting and clearest story about Tesla told so far."

The world changed less from Plato until Tesla’s birth than it did from Tesla’s birth until his death. It is hard not to be fascinated by the story of this historic leap — from a Homeric bard to flying on a blue beam of energy — all within a single human lifetime!

This novel combines the fresco and the icon, the saga and the intimate portrait. Tesla’s biography is an inspired chronicle of one of the greatest changes in human history, spanning several countries and two continents. The story of Tesla is the story of an entire epoch. The subway beneath the city and the advertisements on the rooftops are his works. Chaplin’s Tramp (Charlot) reminded people of him when he was digging trenches. Federsen, the master of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, was him once again.

The mad scientist with his coils in the Frankenstein movie was him. The impeccably dressed aristocrat with sideburns played by Bela Lugosi was him — in elegance and manner. Wasn’t he the one who, even before Breton, listened to the geomagnetic pulse of the Earth?

Wasn’t it Orson Welles who frightened people with his death rays?

Note: An English translation of this book is available: Tesla: A Portrait with Masks: A Novel (English Translation).