Love in an era of hate. Chronicle of a feeling / Florian Illies

Love in an era of hate. Chronicle of one feeling; 1929-1939Paperback; excellent condition In his masterly style, Florian Illies brings the 1930s to life; a decade of rapid growth of political and cultural tensions. Jean-Paul Sartre eats cheesecake with Simone de Beauvoir at the Kranzler-Eck restaurant in Berlin; Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin experience stormy nights in Paris and Quiet Days in Clichy; F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway engage in passionate romance in New York; Bertolt Brecht and Helena Weigel flee into exile; like Katya and Thomas Mann. In 1933, the “golden twenties” came to an abrupt end. It was at this time that the National Socialists seized power in Germany; books are burned and violence against Jews begins. Florian Illies takes us back to an era of exceptional political catastrophe; to talk about the greatest lovers in cultural history. An exciting and beautifully planned journey into the past; which reads as a commentary on our uncertain present.