Used book – The Country Albert Einstein Lived In, Étienne Klein

Albert Einstein is intellectual daring combined with disarming freshness, fervent imagination supported by imperturbable obstinacy. But how can we approach a way of thinking and creating unlike any other?

Étienne Klein followed in his footsteps, focusing on the eras and cities where Einstein's destiny took a decisive turn: Aarau where, at sixteen, Einstein wondered what would happen if he rode a beam of light; Zurich, where he became an engineer in 1901 and developed a passion for experimental physics; Bern where, between March and September 1905, he published five articles, including the one on special relativity which would revolutionize the relations of space and time, while working at the Federal Office for Intellectual Property; Prague where, in 1912, he had the idea that light is deflected by gravity, thus outlining the future theory of general relativity. Then Brussels, Antwerp and, finally, Le Coq-sur-Mer where, in 1933, Einstein took refuge for a few months before leaving Europe for the United States. Permanently.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) lived a life of successive exiles, anchored in physics. His art of questioning remained true to the spirit of childhood. He is a mystery that Étienne Klein approaches with as much affection as admiration.

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