Der Sommer des Jahrhunderts,” Florian Illies shows us, by contrast, it was a year of tremendous cultural activity. In his absorbing non-fiction narrative, “1913. Wedged between two catastrophes - the sinking of the Titanic and the outbreak of the First World War - it served mostly as a stopgap. Until now, the year 1913 has received little attention. Might this have been the reason he invented twelve-tone music? The composer Arnold Schoenberg also was horror-stricken by anything having to do with the number thirteen. On New Year’s day1913, Franz Kafka imagined himself being decapitated and blamed it on the unlucky number. At least that was the case a hundred years ago. Those who fear the number thirteen are probably a bit unnerved this year.
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