Though best known for his editing and posthumous publication of his
friend Franz Kafka's writing, Max Brod was a major novelist in his
own right. ""Tycho Brahe's Path to God"", widely considered his
finest work and viewed by many as a small masterpiece, concerns the
relationship between the great Danish astronomer and the younger,
intellectually superior Johannes Kepler. Brod's representation of
this complicated relation grew out of his acquaintance with the
young Albert Einstein, reproduces his struggles with the
Expressionist poet Franz Werfel, and strangely anticipates the most
famous act Brod would ever perform: publishing Kafka's writings
without his permission. As Brahe attempts to create a diplomatic
compromise between the old Ptolemaic system of planetary motion and
its modern, Copernican revision, Kepler discards the principle of
compromise root and branch. Their conflict thus becomes an emblem
of the struggle between a weakened tradition and a self-conscious
modernity. The novel manages to convey the intimate, emotional
reality of a seventeenth-century political conflict as well as the
psychological, political, and artistic turmoil of Brod's own time.
This revival of the richly allusive and deeply resonant ""Tycho
Brahe's Path to God"" is a true literary event.
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