![]() ![]() What really burns one up isn’t reading page after page about how ill-used Marić was by her philandering husband, or how thoroughly he derailed her career and life, but the knowledge that this story isn’t entirely a relic of the past. ![]() To be blunt, Benedict’s exploration of this unfortunate woman’s life makes you mad, and that’s probably the point. The two met at Zurich Polytechnic as students in 1896, embarked on a passionate affair and launched a turbulent, 13-year marriage in 1903. Fortunately, Marie Benedict’s tragic, crisply told novel isn’t about Albert, but about his Serbian, almost-as-brilliant first wife, Mileva Marić, who narrates it. ![]() Like so many male genius-types, Albert Einstein’s behavior toward at least one woman who supported him was revolting. ![]()
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