9781846689611-1846689619-1913: The Year before the Storm

1913: The Year before the Storm

ISBN-13: 9781846689611
ISBN-10: 1846689619
Edition: Main
Author: Florian Illies
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Clerkenwell Press
Format: Paperback 288 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781846689611
ISBN-10: 1846689619
Edition: Main
Author: Florian Illies
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Clerkenwell Press
Format: Paperback 288 pages

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1913: The Year before the Storm (ISBN-13: 9781846689611 and ISBN-10: 1846689619), written by authors Florian Illies, was published by Clerkenwell Press in 2014. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other Themes (Arts History & Criticism) books. You can easily purchase or rent 1913: The Year before the Storm (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Themes books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.82.

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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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