ЖЕНСКАТА СЛИКА НА СВЕТОТ („МИЛЕВА АЈНШТАЈН, ТЕОРИЈА НА ТАГАТА“ НА СЛАВЕНКА ДРАКУЛИЌ)
Femail Picture of the World (Mileva Einstein, The Theory of Sadness by Slavenka Drakulić)

Summary/Abstract: The object of the analysis is the main female character of the novel Mileva Einstein, The Theory of Sadness written by the Croatian author Slavenka Drakulić. Given the fact that Mileva is fictional character based on a real person, we analyze the character in comparison to her representations in the most famous biography of Albert Einstein, as well as in her own short biography. Every reader who is interested in the past of the real Mileva Marić Einstein faces the obvious lack of information linked to this woman. She is known only as the first wife of one of the greatest scientists in the world – Albert Einstein, but the details about her past remain unrevealed. She became the object of many public debates when the private correspondence of the couple was published and some of the letters revealed the possibility of Mileva’s co-authorship and scientific cooperation between her and Albert. The novel of Drakulić explores the past of the couple and their marriage as a relationship between a dominant male and an oppressed female. Furthermore, the narration from the female point of view offers us insight in Mileva’s thoughts and emotions. The author opens another perspective in order to show the truth as conventional construct loaded with the ideological concepts of the dominant group.

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