EAN: 9780141979434

THE EUROPEANS - ORLANDO FIGES KARTONIERT (TB)

'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.

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