But "the capital of modern age anno 1913" is Vienna, and its "star players" the likes of Freud, Schnitzler, Schiele, Klimt, Loos, Wittgenstein and Kokoschka: "Here the battles raged: about the unconscious, about dreams, the new music, the new way of seeing, the new architecture, the new logic, the new morality." Illies imagines Stalin and Hitler tipping their hats in polite greeting as they stroll through the same city park in January, Tito's in town, too: but at this stage in the play of history they're just "three extras, or non-speaking parts". 1913: The Year Before the Storm by Florian Illies, Shaun Whiteside (Translator), Jamie Lee Searle (Translator) 4.0 Paperback (Reprint) 16.95 Paperback 16.95 eBook 11. In New York, the first edition of Vanity Fair is published, and in Essen, the first Aldi supermarket opens its doors. It's the year that Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract and Louis Armstrong picks up a trumpet. Svj konstrukt seskládal Illies bravurn, i kdy samozejm mohl vybrat i jiné osobnosti nebo se zamit i na dalí témata. His snapshot approach to the year, recorded month by month, is the most original historical account I've come across. Illies, Florian: 1913 léto jednoho století Autorova kulturnhistorická kolá roku 1913 nechává mnoho nedoeeného a kadý tená si me hledat stále nové souvislosti i paralely mezi jednotlivými píbhy. A lready an international bestseller, German author Florian Illies's 1913: The Year Before the Storm is an absolute gem of a book.
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