Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka were together in Prague, Austria during the years 1911 and 1912, both occasionally part of a certain high-brow literary salon. At the exact point in time in which they were there, both were at a critical juncture in their lives’ works, a place which must have appeared to each of them to be maddeningly close to their eventual goals as they looked over their respective precipices toward regions of space and time that came to define the essence of each man; Einstein probing the geometry of space itself while Kafka with his writing pushing into the most hidden, secretive corners of inner space.
Although no one knows if they ever had a genuine conversation, it seems interesting to imagine how they might have begun, in getting to know one another, to explore the fabric of space (both inner and outer) in a manner which at the time might have been comprehensible to only the two of them, while at the same time the particulars of their lives might have somehow become psychologically entangled to the point where the two men actually began influencing each other from a distance.
This book, then, is the story of how it might have been possible somewhere in Prague on a bridge over the Vltava River at sunset, in the Jewish cemetery late at night, or in a crowded literary cafe in the late afternoon for these two important unique souls to begin exploring the fabric of space in highly original ways.
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