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1913 : the year before the storm

"An absolute gem of a book." 'The Observer Just before one of its darkest moments came the twentieth century's most exciting year .&.&. It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car factory, and the year Louis Armstrong first picked up a trumpet. It was the year Charlie Chaplin signed his first movie contract, and Coco Chanel and Prada opened their first dress shops. It was the year Proust began his opus, Stravinsky wrote The Rite of Spring, and the first Armory Show in New York introduced the world to Picasso and the world of abstract art. It was the year the recreational drug now known as ecstasy was invented. It was 1913, the year before the world plunged into the catastrophic darkness of World War I. In a witty yet moving narrative that progresses month by month through the year, and is interspersed with numerous photos and documentary artifacts (such as Kafka's love letters), Florian Illies ignores the conventions of the stodgy tome so common in "one year" histories. Forefronting cultural matters as much as politics, he delivers a charming and riveting tale of a world full of hope and unlimited possibility, peopled with amazing characters and radical politics, bristling with new art and new technology .&.&. even as ominous storm clouds began to gather. From the Hardcover edition.

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  • "Tisíc devět set třináct"
  • "Nineteen thirteen"@en
  • "Sommer des Jahrhunderts"
  • "Devatenáct set třináct"
  • "Neunzehnhundertdreizehn. Chronique d'un monde disparu"
  • "1913"@it
  • "Nineteen-thirteen"
  • "Léto jednoho století"
  • "Mil neuf cent traize"
  • "Nineteen thirteen <engl.&gt"
  • "Neunzehnhundertdreizehn"
  • "Millenovecentotredici: l'anno prima della tempesta"@it
  • "Tausend neunhundert und dreizehn : der Sommer des Jahrhunderts"

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  • "Cultuurhistorisch panorama van het jaar 1913."
  • ""An absolute gem of a book." 'The Observer Just before one of its darkest moments came the twentieth century's most exciting year .&.&. It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car factory, and the year Louis Armstrong first picked up a trumpet. It was the year Charlie Chaplin signed his first movie contract, and Coco Chanel and Prada opened their first dress shops. It was the year Proust began his opus, Stravinsky wrote The Rite of Spring, and the first Armory Show in New York introduced the world to Picasso and the world of abstract art. It was the year the recreational drug now known as ecstasy was invented. It was 1913, the year before the world plunged into the catastrophic darkness of World War I. In a witty yet moving narrative that progresses month by month through the year, and is interspersed with numerous photos and documentary artifacts (such as Kafka's love letters), Florian Illies ignores the conventions of the stodgy tome so common in "one year" histories. Forefronting cultural matters as much as politics, he delivers a charming and riveting tale of a world full of hope and unlimited possibility, peopled with amazing characters and radical politics, bristling with new art and new technology .&.&. even as ominous storm clouds began to gather. From the Hardcover edition."@en
  • ""It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car factory, and the year Louis Armstrong first picked up a trumpet. It was the year Charlie Chaplin signed his first movie contract, and Coco Chanel and Prada opened their first dress shops. It was the year Proust began his opus, Stravinsky wrote The Rite of Spring, and the first Armory Show in New York introduced the world to Picasso and the world of abstract art. It was the year the recreational drug now known as ecstasy was invented. It was 1913, the year before the world plunged into the catastrophic darkness of World War I. In a witty yet moving narrative that progresses month by month through the year, and is interspersed with numerous photos and documentary artifacts (such as Kafka's love letters), Florian Illies ignores the conventions of the stodgy tome so common in 'one year' histories. Forefronting cultural matters as much as politics, he delivers a charming and riveting tale of a world full of hope and unlimited possibility, peopled with amazing characters and radical politics, bristling with new art and new technology, even as ominous storm clouds began to gather."--book jacket."
  • "Virtuos entfaltet Florian Illies das Panorama eines unvergleichlichen Jahres, in dem unsere Gegenwart beginnt. In Literatur, Kunst und Musik werden die Extreme ausgereizt, als gäbe es kein Morgen. Proust sucht nach der verlorenen Zeit, Malewitsch malt ein Quadrat, Benn liebt Lasker-Schüler, Rilke trinkt mit Freud, Strawinsky feiert das Frühlingsopfer, Kirchner gibt der Metropole ein Gesicht, Kafka, Joyce und Musil trinken am selben Tag in Triest einen Cappuccino und in München verkauft ein österreichischer Postkartenmaler namens Adolf Hitler seine biederen Stadtansichten. (Quelle: Buchdeckel verso)."
  • "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."@en
  • "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."@en
  • "This is a moving true account of European society on the brink of war. 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' characteristic mixture of poignant evocation and laconic irony, 1913 is the story of the year that shaped the last century."@en
  • "Die Geschichte eines ungeheuren Jahres, das ein ganzes Jahrhundert prägte: Florian Illies entfaltet virtuos ein historisches Panorama. 1913: Es ist das eine Jahr, in dem unsere Gegenwart begann. In Literatur, Kunst und Musik werden die Extreme ausgereizt, als gäbe es kein Morgen. Zwischen Paris und Moskau, zwischen London, Berlin und Venedig begegnen wir zahllosen Künstlern, deren Schaffen unsere Welt auf Dauer prägte. Man kokst, trinkt, ätzt, hasst, schreibt, malt, zieht sich gegenseitig an und stößt sich ab, liebt und verflucht sich."

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  • "Electronic books"
  • "Anecdotes"
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  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Vyprávění"

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  • "1913 : léto jednoho století"
  • "1913 Der Sommer des Jahrhunderts"
  • "1913 Het laatste gouden jaar van de twintigste eeuw"
  • "1913 : the year before the storm"
  • "1913 : the year before the storm"@en
  • "1913: l'anno prima della tempesta"@it
  • "1913 : het laatste gouden jaar van de twintigste eeuw"
  • "1913 : l'anno prima della tempesta"
  • "1913 : l'anno prima della tempesta"@it
  • "1913 : chronique d'un monde disparu"
  • "1913, chronique d'un monde disparu"
  • "1913 - Der Sommer des Jahrhunderts (mp3-Ausgabe) 1 mp3-CD"
  • "1913 : Der Sommer des Jahrhunderts"
  • "1913 der Sommer des Jahrhunderts"
  • "1913 Der Sommer des Jahrhunderts (Fischer TaschenBibliothek)"
  • "1913 chronique d'un monde disparu"
  • "1913 the Year before the Storm"@en
  • "1913 : der Sommer des Jahrhunderts"

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