The Rite of Spring
The Great War and the birth of modern times

Dazzling in its originality, sharp and insightful when unearth patterns that history has erased, Modris Eksteins explores the origins, impact and the aftermath of World War I-from ballet premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of spring in 1913 until the death of Hitler in 1945. as he writes Modris Eksteins, the Great War was the psychological turning point ... for currency as a whole. The craving to create and the desire to destroy had exchanged their positions. "In" this fertile and bold "book (Atlantic Monthly), Eksteins proceeds to map the seismic changes in human consciousness produced by the great upheaval in the lives and words of ordinary people and events in literary works such as flight trasantlántico Lindberg and publication of the first bestseller modern Quiet on the Western Front. This Rite of Spring Eksteins is an extraordinary and unique work, a cultural history that redefines the way we have to look at our past and look to the future.