However, physicist and author Kurt Hartmann decides to take their meeting one, or rather, several steps forward.
What if, he speculates, Einstein and Kafka had actually indulged in a range of spirited debates over a period of several months?
Hartman speculates on the contents of these imaginary conversations as they talk about mundane, day-to-day topics and also debate some greater and deeper concepts.
However, the story does not finish there and Hartman moves the action 100 years inot the future and conjures up his two protagonists in a cafe in Berlin.
There conversation is continually being interrupted by an investigation into a murder that has occurred very close to the cafe. Wsas the murder a racial killing? Perhaps so.
Einstein casts his mind back to the evil days of the Holocaust and as a result, he feels inspired to participate in the investigation and helps to bring a resolution to the case.
There's also a quirky visit to the past where the author re-lives a love story in the Berlin of the Cold War Years.
The book is published by Matador and costs £9.99. It can be bought here https://goo.gl/wdCFDG.
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