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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