1913 - The Year before the Storm (Paperback, Main)

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.

General

Imprint:	The Clerkenwell Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2014
Authors:	Florian Illies
Translators:	Shaun Whiteside • Jamie Searle
Dimensions:	200 x 130 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	288
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-1-84668-961-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
LSN:	1-84668-961-9
Barcode:	9781846689611

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