Goodreads synopsis: A modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, so that people are fated to repeat triumphs and failures over and over. In another, there is a place where time stands still, visited by lovers and parents clinging to their children. In another, time is a nightingale, sometimes trapped by a bell jar.
Now translated into thirty languages, Einstein’s Dreams has inspired playwrights, dancers, musicians, and painters all over the world. In poetic vignettes, it explores the connections between science and art, the process of creativity, and ultimately the fragility of human existence.
My rating: 2 stars.
Content warnings: R. Some swearing, mentions of nudity both sexual and non sexual.
Thoughts: Some of the little stories were thought provoking. Challenging the way time and life are viewed. At least that's how I chose to look at it.
But the rest. I'm not entirely sure what the point was. I spent most of the book pretty confused as to why it was considered so great, what it was even supposed to be about and why the connection with Einstein was necessary. Maybe without that it would have been a little more interesting. But even so, they felt like little worldbuilding exercises that were published as a book more than anything else.
I'm not saying that automatically made them unenjoyable. But I think if they had been fleshed out more as short stories they would have done their themes much more justice.
Or maybe they weren't supposed to have themes and I'm just grasping for some kind of meaning from this book because confusion and indifference isn't something I expected.
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