Bertrand Russell, la novela gráfica

Hace ya un tiempo (y disculpen que me enlace, pero no encuentro la fuente original directamente), Ernesto Rodera dibujó una entrada ficticia para Crítica de la razón pura: el musical. Quién le habría dicho que estos días algo parecido está triunfando en las ferias de libros de Londres después de haber arrasado en Grecia, donde se editó originalmente con gran éxito:

An unexpected kind of comic book hero is set to emerge this autumn: Bertrand Russell, the philosopher, logician, mathematician and Nobel prize for literature winner who wrote the seminal work on mathematical logic, the Principia Mathematica.

Russell, who died aged 97 in 1970, is starring in a graphic novel based on his life, Logicomix, which portrays the great pacifist’s quest to pin down the foundations of mathematics. First published in Greece last year, where it has become an unexpected bestseller, Logicomix, subtitled An Epic Search for Truth, is the brainchild of maths expert and novelist Apostolos Doxiadis, who was admitted to Columbia University at the tender age of 15.

Covering a span of 60 years, it tells the story of Russell’s life, taking in his childhood, brought up by his grandparents after he was orphaned aged four, his four marriages, the writing of his great work Principia Mathematica, his rivalry with Ludwig Wittgenstein, and his quest for nuclear disarmament in the last decades of his life.