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, an Austrian postcard painter by the name of Adolf Hitler sells his conventional cityscapes. Kafka falls in love Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet a. Così lincontro con Felice Bauer libera la potenza creativa del trentenne Franz Kafka.

In questo affresco, Florian Illies rende vivo un anno che racchiude in sé un momento di massima fioritura e il preludio dellabisso. The stuffy conventions of the nineteenth century are receding into the past, and 1913 heralds a new age of unlimited possibility. Il 1913 è lanno chiave del ventesimo secolo, dove nulla sembra impossibile. Yet everywhere there is the premonition of ruin - the number 13 is omnipresent, and in London, Paris and Vienna, artists take the omen and act as if there were no tomorrow. A witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched biographical fragments, 1913 is an intimate vision of a world that is about to change forever. 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. The stuffy conventions of the nineteenth century are receding into the past, and 1913 heralds a new age of unlimited possibility. 1913: The year before the storm by Florian Illies is a witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched biographical fragments and is an intimate vision of a world that is about to change forever.

1913 by Florian Illies