![]() ![]() ![]() A gunshot rings out through the dark night. Only this time, the angst-ridden, star-crossed characters are named Thomas Mann, Arnold Schoenberg and Karl Kraus, Virginia Woolf, Alma Mahler and Lou Andreas-Salom é, Pablo Picasso, Arthur Schnitzler and Marcel Duchamp. Rather than producing an earnest scholarly book about 1913 - the year of Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring,” Marcel Proust’s “Swann’s Way” and the Armory Show in New York - Florian Illies instead presents modernism’s birth as a sexy, comic and occasionally heartbreaking soap opera. The word “Gift” means poison in German, but “ 1913: The Year Before the Storm” is anything but that: It’s an utterly delicious treat or an ideal present for anyone even mildly interested in 20th-century art, music and literature. ![]()
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