1913 (ePub)
The stuffy conventions of the nineteenth century are receding into the past, and 1913 heralds a new age of...
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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.
- Autor: Florian Illies
- 2013, Englisch
- Übersetzer: Shaun Whiteside, Jamie Lee Searle
- Verlag: Profile
- ISBN-10: 1847659810
- ISBN-13: 9781847659811
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.07.2013
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- Dateiformat: ePub
- Größe: 3.60 MB
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