![]() ![]() ![]() Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2016.īergmann, Ina. ![]() ![]() Ultimately, the deliberate if fictional “misrepresentation” of history runs the risk of lastingly damaging both Marić’s and Einstein’s cultural afterlives. As I will show, while apparently driven by the feminist desire to reveal Marić’s own intellectual brilliance and scientific productivity, Benedict’s fictional exploration of the “Mileva Story” in The Other Einstein serves mainly one purpose, which is to foster the tragic victim narrative that she creates about this female figure in the history of science. Shedding a critical feminist perspective on Marić’s version of the female scientist’s life story, the chapter illuminates the author’s decision to use her artistic liberties as a novelist to explore in fiction what has become a widely held yet speculative and controversial assumption about the historical figure of Marić, namely that she was Einstein’s scientific assistant and collaborator as well as the true originator of the special theory of relativity and that she, like many women in the history of science, was cheated out of recognition by her spouse. This chapter examines Marie Benedict’s fictional recreation of the life of the Serbian mathematician, physicist, and first wife of Albert Einstein, Mileva Marić, in the biographical novel The Other Einstein (2016). ![]()
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