1913: The Year Before the Storm
What Europe's artists and writers were doing in 1913, told as if nobody knew what was coming.
Florian Illies assembles the year month by month from the lives of Kafka, Freud, Rilke, Picasso, Schiele and dozens of others, in fragments that accumulate into a portrait of central European culture at its height. The reader supplies the dread, since the book itself refuses to look ahead.
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Tyler Cowen
Florian Illies, 1913:The Year Before the Storm, considers what the leading German and Austro-Hungarian cultural figures were doing in that year, right before disaster struck.
Source · July 2023
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