Tesla: A Portrait with Masks, considered “the most convincing biography of the only thunder-wielder among men,” cannot really be placed among conventional biographical novels. It is an unusual narrative about a very unusual man—an artistic portrayal that, through three chapters, Youth, America, and The New Century, gradually reveals and illuminates the inner world of a genius.
The literary character of Nikola is placed among many other literary figures in such a way that we come to know him through his thoughts, feelings, fears and delusions; his successes and failures; his rises and falls—but above all through solitude and loneliness, his most persistent companions. Events from reality serve only as a starting point for numerous excursions into the irrational and the surreal.
It is a novel about Tesla’s inter-vibration within the world and above it, where reality is interpreted through various narrative techniques in such a way that, in the end, the reader wishes to return once again to the beginning.
