A witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched documentary
traces and biographical fragments, 1913 is an intimate cultural
portrait 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, Vienna, Berlin, Trieste, artists take the omen and act as if
there were no tomorrow, their brief coincidences of existence
telling of a darker future. 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, in Munich an Austrian postcard painter by the
name of Adolf Hitler sells his conventional cityscapes. Told with
Illies's characteristic mixture of poignant evocation and laconic
irony, 1913 is the story of the year that shaped the last century.
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