Berlin in Lights: The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1918-1937
by Harry Kessler
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Count Harry Kessler was intensely involved in the art, politics and society of Weimar Germany. Moving constantly between these different worlds, his diaries capture the dazzling and doomed quality of Berlin and Europe at that period.Tags
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This is another excellent diary of a German aesthete who knew everybody and did everything, covering his life from the end of World War l to his death in 1937. Unfortunately, the editing of this book is an abomination; not only are there errors of fact (Nicolai Nabokov was born in 1913?) but the footnotes are at the end of the book, forcing one to turn pages frequently rather than at the bottom as in the volume Journey to the Abyss.
Finally, vast tracts of French are interposed in the text because the count was multilingual. Unfortunately I don't read French so this was useless.
Finally, vast tracts of French are interposed in the text because the count was multilingual. Unfortunately I don't read French so this was useless.
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insel taschenbuch (1779)
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- Canonical title
- Berlin in Lights: The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1918-1937
- Original publication date
- 1961
- People/Characters
- Harry Kessler
- Disambiguation notice
- Please note that the English translation, though covering the same years, does not contain the same entries/content and should therefore not be combined with the German edition!
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- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 943.085 — History & geography History of Europe Central Europe: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czech, Poland, Hungary Historical periods of Germany Germany 1866- Weimar Republic 1918-1933
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- DD231 .K4 .A3513 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Germany History of Germany History By period Modern, 1519- 19th-20th centuries New Empire, 1871-1918
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