A Greek comic book is taking the literary world by storm. It was a hit at last week’s London Book Fair and is already being touted by Publisher’s Weekly as the “most far-out and exciting” galley to get your hands on at Book Expo America, which begins May 28th.
I’ll let Alison Flood of The Guardian describe it:
“An unexpected kind of comic book hero is set to emerge this autumn: Bertrand Russell, the philosopher, logician, mathematician and Nobel prize for literature winner who wrote the seminal work on mathematical logic, the Principia Mathematica.
Russell, who died aged 97 in 1970, is starring in a graphic novel based on his life, Logicomix, which portrays the great pacifist’s quest to pin down the foundations of mathematics. First published in Greece last year, where it has become an unexpected bestseller, Logicomix, subtitled “An Epic Search for Truth,” is the brainchild of maths expert and novelist Apostolos Doxiadis, who was admitted to Columbia University at the tender age of 15.
Covering a span of 60 years, it tells the story of Russell’s life, taking in his childhood, brought up by his grandparents after he was orphaned aged four, his four marriages, the writing of his great work Principia Mathematica, his rivalry with Ludwig Wittgenstein, and his quest for nuclear disarmament in the last decades of his life.”
Logicomix will be available in the U.S. on September 28th. I can’t wait!
LINK:
- Logicomix
