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 and people are fated to repeat their 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.
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.
