by Florian Illies
bookshelves: published-2013, summer-2013, radio-4, fradio, nonfiction, translation Read from July 21 to 26, 2013 Reblogged on the back of Twilight of the Belle Epoque: BBC BLURB: In Paris, Proust sets out in search of lost time in a sound-proofed study, Stravinsky creates musical mayhem, and ...
Quite a clever construct, using short narratives or biographical information. the author pieces together the world using notable personages as a guide to the world in the year before the Great War was fought. So many interesting tidbits, including the Lutz, the skater jump, this was apparently the...
Such an endearingly irreverent yet empathic account, and what a year! I just love this book and hope you do too. The following random excerpts should give you the gist. (February) And so the capital of the modern age anno 1913 is Vienna. Its star players are Sigmund Freud, Arthur Schnitzler, Egon Sc...
BBC BLURB: In Paris, Proust sets out in search of lost time in a sound-proofed study, Stravinsky creates musical mayhem, and Duchamp finds a wheel; in Prague, Einstein yearns for Elsa and Kafka for Felice; in Munich, Lulu is banned, and Münter captures her Klee; in Vienna, Freud falls out with Jung,...
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