1910

The year 1910 marks an astonishing, and largely unrecognized, juncture in Western history. This title addresses the extraordinary intellectual achievement of the time. It probes the themes and obsessions in the work of intellectuals as diverse as Egon Schiele, Georg Trakl, Vasily Kandinsky, Georg Lukacs, Georg Simmel and Dino Campana.

Thomas Harrison, Visiting Associate Professor of Italian at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the author of Essayism: Conrad, Musil and Pirandello (1992).