Name: The Alienation Effect. How Central European Emigres Transformed the British Twentieth Century
SKU: 64819648
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Author: Owen Hatherley
ISBN: 9780141989778

portada The Alienation Effect. How Central European Emigres Transformed the British Twentieth Century

The Alienation Effect. How Central European Emigres Transformed the British Twentieth Century

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Penguin

Autor

Owen Hatherley

Año

2026

N° páginas

608

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

19.8x12.9x3.5 cm

ISBN13

9780141989778

The Alienation Effect. How Central European Emigres Transformed the British Twentieth Century

Owen Hatherley (Autor) · Penguin · Tapa Blanda

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Britain. Made in Europe. In the 1930s, tens of thousands of central Europeans sought sanctuary from fascism in Britain. While the rainy, seemingly quaint island they discovered on arrival was a far cry from the dynamism of Weimar Berlin or Red Vienna, it was safe, and it became home. Yet the émigrés had not arrived alone: they brought with them new and radical ideas, and as they began to rebuild their lives and livelihoods, they transformed the face of Britain forever. Drawing on an immense cast of artists and intellectuals, including celebrated figures like Erno Goldfinger, forgotten luminaries like Ruth Glass, and a host of larger-than-life visionaries and charlatans, the historian Owen Hatherley argues that in the resulting clash between European modernism and British moderation, our imaginations were fundamentally realigned and remade for the better. In casting what Bertolt Brecht called, in a new German word, a Verfremdungseffekt, an ‘alienation effect’, on Britain, the aliens made us all a little bit alien too. Provocative, entertaining and meticulously researched, The Alienation Effect opens our eyes to the influence of the émigrés all around us – many of our most quintessentially British icons are the product of this culture clash – and entreats us to remember and renew our proud national tradition of asylum.