1913. Summer of the whole century

Before you is a chronicle of the last civilian year on the eve of the First World War, in which many events occurred that became iconic for the culture of the twentieth century. In 1913, Proust’s novel “In the direction of Svan” came out, Spengler began working on the “sunset of Europe”, a scandalous Parisian premiere of the ballet Spring ”Stravinsky and the concert of the dodecafonic music of Shenberg was written, the first version of Malevich’s Black Square was written, opened, opened The first boutique of Prada, Louis Armstrong picked up the pipe, Stalin came illegally to Vienna, and Hitler, on the contrary, left her. The author, a German critic and essayist, who replaced the place of work from the newspaper during the last crisis, and the circle of interests - with acute urgent art for old art, created a fascinating panorama of the lively cultural life of the time of the birth of modernism. In the press, the book was called the "huge teaser" of the 20th century and the most lively reminder of how that which seemed to be a given turned out to be fragile, even defenseless