1913: the Libertines of the Summer of the Century

1913 Was like a year of blooming flowers and endless possibilities, but the seeds of decadence had quietly sprouted. In literature, art and music, all extreme emotions burn themselves wantonly, as if there will never be another sun tomorrow. Franz Kafka writes a long and beautiful proposal letter to Felice Bauer; Proust reflects on his lost years; Stravinsky and Schoenberg are surrounded by endless scandals; the first Prada chain opens in Milan; Duchamp puts a wheel on a dining chair; Sigmund •Freud had a drink with Rainer Maria Rilke; a young Austrian painter named Adolf Hitler was selling his refreshing city landscape paintings... After the summer of 1913, the world was turned upside down, and the long 19th century finally gave way to the broken and extreme 20th century.