The year 1913 heralded an age of endless possibilities yet everywhere a premonition of ruin is omnipresent, judging by the diaries and letters of writers and artists who feel adrift in an inimical world, dark clouds looming. Almost "everyone" is there from Louis Armstrong, to the brothers Mann, Freud, Jung, Stravinsky, Hitler, their wives and other loves. All described with a light hand but with an admonitory finger pointing to the fatal year, 1914.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 79 Winter 2016 ) |
