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1913. Het Laatste Gouden Jaar Van De Twintigste Eeuw (2012)

by Florian Illies(Favorite Author)

3.73 of 5 Votes: 1

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English

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History & Biography

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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 (uncountable pheasants perished), a missing Mona Lisa, feuds (Freud vs Jung), a very important tennis match, fashion and the invention of ecstacy. This is like Variety magazine and E! Entertainment, the pre-war editions. Nothing to indicate that WW1 was scheduled to happen the following year, well, maybe except for Hitler failing to get into art college and being a rather mediocre artist. And that nobody liked the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria very much.
review 2: Are you interested in ... morereading about the time Franz Kafka and Adolf Hitler could have been eating in the same cafe, one year before Europe was swallowed whole by the Great War? Or what Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse did in their off time when they weren’t turning the world of art on its head? Illies’ narrative moves month by month in short pieces that ultimately bring the world of this peculiar year at the dawn of the Modern Age to illuminating life. While not ignoring the politics entirely, Illies’ characters are more often the day’s artists, writers and social critics—the true manufacturers of culture and history. Wonderfully stylized, This non-fiction narrative is written in a very literary style and is utterly addicting. less

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