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The Europeans

The Europeans

Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture

36,50 €
september 2019 (predobjednávka)

'Magnificent. Beautifully written, immaculately researched and thoroughly absorbing from start to finish. A tour de force that explains how Europe's cultural life transformed during the course of the 19th century - and so much more.' Peter Frankopan'I loved the book.

I read it in every spare moment, fascinated and sometimes surprised. [...] I have been speaking about the book to everyone I know: it is clearly not just a book for musicians but for the widest audience interested in literature, music and art.' Barbara Hannigan'Magnificent and utterly gripping: European identity, culture and commerce through the lives of three remarkable individuals, the book for our times.' Philippe SandsFrom the bestselling author of Natasha's Dance, The Europeans is a richly enthralling, panoramic cultural history of nineteenth-century Europe, told through the intertwined lives of three remarkable people: a great singer, Pauline Viardot, a great writer, Ivan Turgenev, and a great connoisseur, Pauline's husband Louis. Their passionate, ambitious lives were bound up with an astonishing array of writers, composers and painters all trying to make their way through the exciting, prosperous and genuinely pan-European culture that came about as a result of huge economic and technological change.

This culture - through trains, telegraphs and printing - allowed artists of all kinds to exchange ideas and make a living, shuttling back and forth across the whole continent from the British Isles to Imperial Russia, as they exploited a new cosmopolitan age. The Europeans is Orlando Figes' masterpiece. Surprising, beautifully written, it describes huge changes through intimate details, little-known stories and through the lens of Turgenev and the Viardots' touching, strange love triangle.

Events which we now see as central to European high culture are made completely fresh, allowing the reader to revel in the sheer precariousness with which the great salons, premieres and bestsellers came into existence.


Podrobnosti

Autor Orlando Figes
Vydavateľ Allen Lane
Jazyk anglický
Väzbatvrdá
Počet strán576
Formát164 x 240 mm
EAN9780241004890
Rok vydania2019
Edícia História

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Orlando Figes

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