1913 - The Year Before the Storm
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| Verlag | Profile Books |
| Auflage | 2014 |
| Seiten | 288 |
| Format | 12,8 x 19,7 x 1,6 cm |
| Gewicht | 236 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | 1913 1 |
| Übersetzer | Shaun Whiteside, Jamie Searle |
| ISBN-10 | 1846689619 |
| EAN | 9781846689611 |
| Bestell-Nr | 84668961UA |
From James Joyce to Coco Chanel, 1913 is an irreverent but poignant portrait of Europe on the brink of war, now in paperback.
Klappentext:
§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.
Rezension:
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