"1913: the Year Before the Storm" by Florian Illies

Dear Book Club friends

In April we discuss the book "1913: the Year Before the Storm" by Florian Illies, selected by Bettina.

Important note for first-time attendees: if you decide to attend, the group expects you to have read the book and present your opinion.

A short description:

"A witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched biographical fragments, Protected content an intimate vision of a world that is about to change forever. The stuffy conventions of the nineteenth century are receding into the past, and Protected content a new age of unlimited possibility. 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.
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. 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."

If you are unable to participate, kindly cancel your attendance in time.
No-shows from past activities are tracked.

PLEASE NOTE: As we are meeting at a restaurant, attendees are expected to order something.
See you there!

Munich Book Group