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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.
TITLE: 1913
AUTHOR: Florian Illies
SKU: 9781846689611
PUBLISHER: Profile Books Ltd
DATE PUBLISHED: 05/06/2014
PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom
PAGES: 288
BINDING: Paperback / softback
LANGUAGE: English
DIMENSIONS: 129 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
WEIGHT: 243 gr