Love in a Time of Hate (eBook)

Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39

Florian Illies (Autor)

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2023
377 Seiten
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-80081-115-7 (ISBN)

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'Strikingly original, utterly absorbing' Julia Boyd, author of Travellers in the Third ReichA Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023'1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles towards war, the great minds of the time have other concerns. Jean-Paul Sartre waits anxiously in a Parisian cafe for his first date with no-show Simone de Beauvoir. Marlene Dietrich slips from her loveless marriage into the dive bars of Berlin. Father and son Thomas and Klaus Mann clash over each other's homosexuality. And Vladimir Nabokov lovingly places a fresh-caught butterfly at the end of Vera's bed. Little do they all know, the book burning will soon begin.Love in a Time of Hate skilfully interweaves some of the greatest love stories of the 1930s with the darkening backdrop of fascism in Europe, in an irresistible journey into the past that brings history and its actors to vivid life.

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This is candid, unsparing and gripping social history viewed through the prism of two- and three-person relationships - simultaneously disenchanting and endearing. A bravura performance

In a revealing, offbeat slice of cultural history, Florian Illies traces the tangled affairs of Europe's intelligentsia against the backdrop of the rise of fascism ... Illies, a German writer, brings a light touch and conversational style to his mosaic view of a pivotal period ... he astutely weaves these diverse stories into a fluent, widescreen narrative

Please do read this book - it is gorgeous. I learned so many new things about love, art and the horror of history

A brilliantly conceived and uniquely different cultural history of the 1930s, written with confident, alluring poise. Fascinating and revelatory

It takes a skilful hand to arrange these vignettes into a dramatic image of the world slipping into catastrophe ... This erudite history covers much ground

Set against the relentless rise of Nazi terror, this ingenious narrative evokes the 1930s through the loves, foibles and tragedies of the cultural elite. Strikingly original, utterly absorbing.

Highly novelistic ... wisecracking ... skilfully composed

An enthralling and insightful cultural history - one that shows how, over the course of one pivotal decade, love, freedom and the freedom to love gave way to fear, madness and despair

A cultural history of some of the 1930s greatest love stories, interwoven with the darkening backdrop of fascism in Europe

The experimental sex lives of the artists and thinkers of the roaring 20s are set against the burgeoning threat of fascism in this wickedly amusing and timely book

An absolute gem of a book

Thorough and fascinating

A vivid, richly textured book that chronicles a world crackling with talent, energy and foreboding

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.6.2023
• Übersetzer: Simon Pare
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Becoming Beauvoir Kate Kirkpatrick • Crucible Charles Emmerson • Cultural History • European History • Ferdinand von Schirach • Politics • Simon Sebag Montefiore • Svetlana Alexievich
• ISBN-10: 1-80081-115-2 / 1800811152
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80081-115-7 / 9781800811157