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TESLA, PORTRET MEÐU MASKAMA

Vladimir Pistalo

(TESLA, PORTRAIT WITH MASKS)

An electric novel of the extraordinary life of one of the twentieth century's most prodigious and colorful inventors

Nikola Tesla was a man forever misunderstood. From his boyhood in present-day Croatia, where his father, a Serbian Orthodox priest, dismissed his talents, to the whirlwind years of the electrical age, Tesla was both demonized and lionized. For every successful inventionthe alternating current electrical system and wireless communication among them there were hundreds of others. But what of the man behind the image? Vladimir Pitalo reveals the inner life of a man who struggled with flashes of madness and brilliance, and whose mistrust of institutional support led him to financial ruin. Tesla: A Portrait with Masks is an impassioned account of a visionary whose influence is still felt today.

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Book Published 2023-05-11 by Agora, Zrenjanin

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Crackling with energetic prose, Pistalo's historical novel about Nikola Tesla skillfully explores the inventor's creative genius, scientific legacy and formative heartbreaks Read more...

This biographical novel captures the famed inventor's spirit and makes his life, fears, and struggles come alive. Jessie Seigel, Washington Independent Read more...

Novi Liber

Nikola Tesla, by inventing the AC motor and wireless electrical technology, helped usher America into the modern world. Through extraordinarily rich imagery and metaphor, Vladimir Pitalo imagines Tesla's inner life, and in so doing, probes the cultural and spiritual consequences of modernity.

"Much has been written about Nikola Tesla, but Vladimir Pitalo's extraordinary and profoundly original novel manages to tell us something entirely newnot only about the brilliant 'mad-genius' inventor but also about the ways in which literature and the imagination can transform biography into great art."

Azbooka

"Beautifully written, immensely entertaining, and astonishingly original in the way it tells the story of a man who they used to say 'invented the twentieth century,' but whose life is still an enigma, Tesla: A Portrait with Masks has the richness, the high jinks, and the originality of such modern classics as Guenter Grass's The Tin Drum and Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.

"A novel aflame with the energy of a singular life. . . . Pitalo's potent imagination allows him to see beyond the events into Tesla's tortured heart, exposing the proud visionary's existential fears and his strange delusions. . . . Thanks to talented translators, English-speaking readers now share a prize-winning Serbian masterpiece."

Vladimir Pitalo has drawn a lightning-etched portrait of a genius as powerful, as transformative and as mysterious as electricity itself.

Modrijan

Pistalo renders Tesla and his contemporaries so vividly that the line between fact and the author's imaginative powers begins to blend. The novel is perfect for readers looking for better insight into one of the greatest minds of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

"A compelling fictionalized account of inventor Nikola Tesla's inscrutable and solitary life. . . . Pitalo's thorough account of a great man's personality and habits is done to fine effect."

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Uniscorp

Tesla has the richness, the high jinks, and the originality of such modern classics as Guenter Grass's The Tin Drum and Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.