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Crédit image: Harry Graf Kessler, 1917 by Rudolf Dührkoop (1848–1918)

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Œuvres de Harry Kessler

Tagebücher 1918 - 1937 (1979) 32 exemplaires
Walter Rathenau: His Life and Work (1928) 16 exemplaires
Notizen über Mexiko (1998) 7 exemplaires
Erinnerungen eines Europäers (2019) 3 exemplaires
Millionaire Referee (1982) 3 exemplaires

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Nom légal
Kessler, Harry Clément Ulrich
Date de naissance
1868-05-23
Date de décès
1937-11-30
Sexe
male
Nationalité
Germany
Lieu de naissance
Paris, France
Lieu du décès
Lyon, France
Professions
diplomat
writer
art patron

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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.… (plus d'informations)
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annbury | 1 autre critique | Jun 20, 2012 |
One of the most interesting commentaries ever on the beaux monde during the last decades of the nineteenth and first years of the twentieth century. Kessler was an artist and loved art, but that didn't stop him from killing Belgians at the start of WWl. He knew everybody and went everywhere.
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Œuvres
33
Aussi par
2
Membres
407
Popularité
#59,758
Évaluation
4.2
Critiques
5
ISBN
44
Langues
5

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