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1913
- The Year before the Storm
Engelsk Paperback
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- The Year before the Storm
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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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9781846689611
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1846689619
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Udg. Dato:
12 jun 2014
Længde:
19mm
Bredde:
131mm
Højde:
198mm
Forlag:
Profile Books Ltd
Oplagsdato:
12 jun 2014
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