Constellation of Genius: 1922: Modernism and All That Jazz - Brossura

Jackson, Kevin

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0099559021 ISBN 13: 9780099559023

Casa editrice: Windmill Books, 2013

Riassunto

1922. The spectacular year that F. Scott Fitzgerald chose as a backdrop for his most famous novel The Great Gatsby. It was also the year where James Joyce’s Ulysses and T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land were published, Alfred Hitchcock directed his first feature, the Ottoman Empire collapsed, Louis Armstrong took the train from New Orleans to Chicago and made Jazz the defining music of the age, and Hollywood transformed the nature of fame.

Constellation of Genius is the gloriously entertaining journey through the diaries of the actors, anthropologists, artists, dancers, designers, film-makers, philosophers, playwrights, politicians and scientists whose lives and works collided over twelve months, creating a frenzy of innovation and the beginning of a new era.

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Recensione:

"Constellation of Genius is an insanely readable book about modernism. Indeed, I think it no disservice to Jackson to say that this is the primer the subject has been looking for: a way into its symbolic labyrinth for even the most literal-minded" (Will Self Guardian)

"[A] lively guide to modernism’s heyday ... Almost every page yields something momentous or surprising of worth remembering, and the multitudinous footnotes, of which Jackson is a gleeful exploiter, add to the fun ... Elegant and illuminating ... A whizz-bang year." (Literary Review)

"Open this marvellous diary of a single year at any page and you will be struck by some startling moment of import in a life of genius or an epoch-making event." (Sunday Herald)

"Brilliantly erudite and very funny." (Robert Macfarlane)

"Drawing on diaries, letters and other snippets, Jackson composes a day-by-day account of his chosen year . . . Popular and high culture are equally celebrated in this Barnum’s Circus of a book. The volume is beautifully produced." (Sunday Telegraph)

Descrizione del libro:

Gloriously entertaining, supremely erudite and delightfully idiosyncractic - this is the diary of the spectacular year of 1922

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• Editore: Windmill Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0099559021
• ISBN 13: 9780099559023
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 544