This book has chronicled different aftereffects of this tremendous shock, from trauma and new beginnings to first confrontations and sheer hedonism, from political faith and its limits to an aesthetic realization in art. It has explored the increasingly cataclysmic manifestations, from street battles to streams of refugees and mass shootings, in a game of ideologies that had already degenerated into the dirtiest of politics. Nineteen eighteen was ushered in by a world at war, and there was a widespread sense at year’s end that the conflict had not been resolved, that the Treaty of Versailles
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