by Jonas Lüscher (Author)
Richard Kraft, rhetoric's professor of at the University of Tü bingen, unhappily married and in financial trouble, may have found a way out of his misfortune. His former colleague Istvá n, a professor at Stanford University, encourages him to enter a scientific contest in Silicon Valley. An Internet tycoon offers one million dollars to the best philosophical answer. Kraft has 18 minutes to explain why creation is perfect as it is, and yet, can be improved. The money would allow Kraft to finally be free of his demanding wife. Funny, angry and wicked, in this clever novel, Jonas Lü scher tells the story of a man facing the ruins of his life and a powerful elite that seemingly nothing and no one can stop and that is willing to break any taboo.
Author Biography
Jonas Lüscher was born in Switzerland in 1976. He studied Philosophy and has a PhD. He is also a professor of ethics at the Munich-Pasing State School of Economics. In 2012, he was awarded a fellowship from the Swiss National Foundation for Science as a visiting researcher in the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. Currently, he writes political essays on immigration, the welfare state or the financial market for various newspaper. Kraft is his second work. Nominated for the German Book Prize, he won the Swiss Book Prize in 2017.