Books by Florian Illies
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review 1: An everyday story of mid-European artistic folkThe main character in this book is, unusually, a year, which is explored chronologically through its comprising months and the lives of a large cast of players.The tone is that of a social observer, or a soap opera, or even like read...
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review 1: Hat mir ausgesprochen gut gefallen. Der Autor versteht es gut die Stimmung in den, der Moderne verschriebenen Kreisen, dem Leser näher zu bringen. Man spürt die Spannung die herrscht, die Unsicherheit auf der Suche nach neuen, der Zeit entsprechenden Ausdrucks- und Lebensformen. ...
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review 1: The celebs of 1913 were writers, painters, composers, scientists, psychologists and their lovers. This book goes through a year's worth of high society angst, drama, marriage proposals (and rejections), lost love, hypochondria, hyperactivity, a pistol duel, hunting parties (uncou...
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review 1: This book is full of fascinating tidbits from the year before World War I began including the fact that Adolf Hitler, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Tito, Sigmund Freud, Joseph Stalin and Emperor Franz Joseph all lived in Vienna at the same time. The book looks at the lives of a wide array...