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The Europeans
Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture
Taschenbuch von Orlando Figes
Sprache: Englisch

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'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
From the bestselling author of Natasha's Dance, The Europeans is 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.
'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
From the bestselling author of Natasha's Dance, The Europeans is 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.
Über den Autor
Orlando Figes
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Jahrhundert: Neuzeit
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: XXIV
552 S.
ISBN-13: 9780141979434
ISBN-10: 0141979437
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 394880
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Figes, Orlando
Hersteller: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Penguin
Maße: 198 x 132 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Orlando Figes
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.04.2020
Gewicht: 0,41 kg
Artikel-ID: 117368229
Über den Autor
Orlando Figes
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Jahrhundert: Neuzeit
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: XXIV
552 S.
ISBN-13: 9780141979434
ISBN-10: 0141979437
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 394880
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Figes, Orlando
Hersteller: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Penguin
Maße: 198 x 132 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Orlando Figes
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.04.2020
Gewicht: 0,41 kg
Artikel-ID: 117368229
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