1913

The Story of an Enormous Year - the international bestseller now available as a high-quality paperback! "I couldn't stop reading - Illies' stories are simply fantastic." Ferdinand von Schirach. Florian Illies masterfully unfolds a historical panorama. 1913: It is the one year in which our present began. In literature, art, and music, extremes are pushed to the limit as if there were no tomorrow. Between Paris and Moscow, between London, Berlin, and Venice, we encounter countless artists whose work permanently shaped our world. They indulge in cocaine, drink, etch, hate, write, paint, attract and repel each other, love and curse one another. It is a year in which everything seems possible. And yet, within the dazzling beginning lies the foreshadowing of decline. Literature, art, and music already knew in 1913 that humanity had lost its innocence.