Death and Birth of rabbi Akiva

Why so the book which author does not aspire to transfer on its pages a maximum known about a great Jewish wise man, the founder of talmudic Judaizm is named, believing, what some boundary existential situations in which time and eternity adjoin, will tell about his destiny more, than infinite encyclopaedic article? The instant of consciousness of the hero - an instant of consciousness of the author and the reader - to an establishment of this connection aspires the author analyzing texts about Kidush a-Shem, about an ascention in pardes, about rabbi and his wife, about an ascention in Ierushalaim and the well-known statement rabbi Akiva: « All predicted, both freedom is given, and goods the world has legal proceedings, and all - on set of acts ».