“An extraordinary piece of work” – Independent
“An extraordinary piece of work” – Independent
“A rich yarn… Wonderfully persuasive!” – Financial Times
“Graphic-novel masterpiece” –Booklist (starred review)
Logicomix gets a Booklist Starred Review. To read it click here.
By Ray Olson, BOOKLIST
From the 1880s to the 1930s, mathematicians and logicians were hot to settle the foundations of mathematics. In the thick of the great quest was Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), who is at the center of mathematician-novelist Doxiadis and confreres’ dramatic graphic novel.
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‘Logicomix’, the story of Bertrand Russell’s struggles with philosophy and his sanity, takes the graphic novel into remarkable new territory. John Walsh is gripped.
The comic strip hasn’t, historically speaking, been considered a quite suitable medium for the transmission of profound literature or thought. Tintin and Spider-Man, yes; Les Miserables and Hamlet, no. When Albert Kanter created Classic Comics (later Classics Illustrated) in 1941, his strip versions of Ivanhoe and Don Quixote were held at arm’s-length by parents and teachers, who were appalled to think their young charges might learn anything from colour-panel trash.
John Walsh, columnist for the UK daily newspaper The Independent called Logicomix “an extraordinary piece of work,” in his recent review entitled Bertrand Russell: The thinking person’s superhero. Read it here.