Liebe in Zeiten des Hasses. Chronik eines Gefühls 1929–1939

Jean-Paul Sartre eats cheesecake with Simone de Beauvoir in the Kranzler-Eck in Berlin, Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin experience wild nights in Paris and Quiet Days in Clichy, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway throw themselves into passionate affairs in New York. Meanwhile, Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel flee into exile like Katia and Thomas Mann. This is precisely the time when the National Socialists seize power in Germany, burn books and violence against Jews flares up. In 1933, the ‘Golden Twenties’ ended with a full stop. Florian Illies takes us back to the era of a singular political catastrophe to tell the story of the greatest lovers in cultural history.