The Europeans
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'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'I loved
the book.I read it in every spare moment, fascinated and sometimes
surprised. [...] I have been speaking about the book to everyone I
know: it is clearly not just a book for musicians but for the
widest audience interested in literature, music and art.' Barbara
Hannigan'Magnificent and utterly gripping: European identity,
culture and commerce through the lives of three remarkable
individuals, the book for our times.' Philippe SandsFrom the
bestselling author of Natasha's Dance, The Europeans is a 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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