Genius is a Fever Dream – When We Cease to Understand the World (2020) by Benjamín Labatut
In this “nonfiction novel”, Labatut writes about the lives and discoveries of scientists such as Haber, Grothendieck, Heisenberg, Schrödinger, indulging in the most morbid details of their personal experiences, as well as on the often dramatic consequences of their research. His historical accounts regularly blur the line between fiction and nonfiction: at times he strives…