Feminist, revolutionary, first woman to get a position as a university professor in Europe, sister of a great friend of Marx and fascinated herself with the Paris Commune, Sofia Kovalévskaya is considered the greatest Russian mathematician of the nineteenth century, and an extraordinary writer . However, while the Cauchy-Kovalévskaya theorem - among other investigations - still occupies a central place in the history of science, his literary work remained unpublished in Spanish.
Written in 1890, a year before his death, A nihilist is a learning novel: Vera, born from the provincial world, travels to Petersburg, not to marry, of course, but to commit against an oppressive reality, and to declare war Against all conventions.