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A witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched biographical fragments, 1913 is an intimate vision of a world that is about to change forever.The stuffy conventions of the nineteenth century are receding into the past, and 1913 heralds a new age of unlimited possibility. Kafka falls in love; Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet; a young seamstress called Coco Chanel opens her first boutique; Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract; and new drugs like cocaine usher in an age of decadence.Yet everywhere there is the premonition of ruin - the number 13 is omnipresent, and in London, Paris and Vienna, artists take the omen and act as if there were no tomorrow. In a Munich hotel lobby, Rilke and Freud discuss beauty and transience; Proust sets out in search of lost time; and while Stravinsky celebrates the Rite of Spring with industrial cacophony, an Austrian postcard painter by the name of Adolf Hitler sells his conventional cityscapes.
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1913, Florian Illies
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- Released
- 2014
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- Title
- 1913
- Subtitle
- The Year Before the Storm
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Florian Illies
- Publisher
- The Clerkenwell Press
- Released
- 2014
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN10
- 1846689619
- ISBN13
- 9781846689611
- Series
- 1913
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Art & Culture, Social Sciences, Historical Themes, History, Political Science & Politics, Art, Politics, German Literature, Military History, Germany, Wars, Gifts for grandpa, Gifts for women, 19th century, Berlin, Culture, Cultural History, Paris, Vienna, Artists, Pablo Picasso, Central European Literature, Year 1913
- First published
- 2012
- Original title
- 1913: Der Sommer des Jahrhunderts
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- A witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched biographical fragments, 1913 is an intimate vision of a world that is about to change forever.The stuffy conventions of the nineteenth century are receding into the past, and 1913 heralds a new age of unlimited possibility. Kafka falls in love; Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet; a young seamstress called Coco Chanel opens her first boutique; Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract; and new drugs like cocaine usher in an age of decadence.Yet everywhere there is the premonition of ruin - the number 13 is omnipresent, and in London, Paris and Vienna, artists take the omen and act as if there were no tomorrow. In a Munich hotel lobby, Rilke and Freud discuss beauty and transience; Proust sets out in search of lost time; and while Stravinsky celebrates the Rite of Spring with industrial cacophony, an Austrian postcard painter by the name of Adolf Hitler sells his conventional cityscapes.