A Review: The Maniac

Title of Work: The Maniac
Author: Benjamín Labatut
Format:
Published: 2023
Started:
Finished: 2025-07-18\

Posted: Goodreads
Rating: 3/5

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Give it a spin if you’ve ever found yourself reading the Wikipedia pages of the great math and physics geniuses of our kind, wondering what their lives may have been like.

Did they argue? Did they admire each other? Were they dorks? Did they sleep around? What, if anything, did they struggle with? How did their contemporaries view their exceptional contributions in real time?

I have no idea how much is true and how much is speculative but I did enjoy the story.