“Love in a Time of Hate,” by Florian Illies, shows how love, freedom and the freedom to love gave way to fear and despair.
Illies’s book opens at the tail end of the roaring ’20s. Thomas Mann wins the 1929 Nobel Prize in literature but refuses to invite his errant son, Klaus, to the ceremony. Lee Miller accosts Man Ray in a Parisian cafe, announces that she is his new pupil and tags along with him on his summer vacation. Josephine Baker dances onstage then ducks for cover when Nazi thugs throw stink bombs.
As a new decade begins, one of those women, Marlene Dietrich, continues “negotiating the shifting sands of sexual identity” in the German capital, spending time with her husband and her former lover, while yearning for her paramour in Hollywood and frequenting lesbian bars in a suit and tie.
Elsewhere, some adulterous men expect too much from their partners. Simone de Beauvoir is jealous that Jean-Paul Sartre has renewed contact with the prostitute who gave him a lampshade made from red underwear — until he reminds her that she agreed to his terms of their open marriage, allowing both parties “incidental” flings. Meanwhile Ruth Albu, the lover of the writer Erich Maria Remarque, becomes incensed at his refusal to sever contact with his ex-wife.
“Love, in this day and age?” writes the satirist and serial philanderer Kurt Tucholsky. “Who still loves nowadays?” Everyone does throughout this collection of riveting snapshots, but the love on display is a source of both pleasure and pain.Malcolm Forbes is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in the Economist, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal and the New Republic.
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