Eksteins, Modris

Rites of Spring

Rites of Spring The Great War and the birth of the modern age More Reviews: “It is the extraordinary accomplishment of Modris Eksteins’s Rites of Spring that he grasps the tortured interplay between the most ghastly war ever fought and the social, intellectual, and cultural movements of the time. It is a work of superb scholarship; it…

Rites of Spring

“Eksteins is as gifted a stylist as he is a scholar. One reads it with fascination and intellectual gratitude.”Alfred Kazin “…a witty and enterprising scholar”Kurt Vonnegut “…nothing less than a retrospective of our entire century. Art and politics, dance and war, have never been the same. …It is the start of a new history.”James Carroll…

Walking Since Daybreak

Walking Since Daybreak More Reviews: “Walking Since Daybreak is a deeply moving and intellectually challenging view of modern history and its meaning for modern man… In its fresh look at the legacy of World War 11, Eksteins’ fine book builds a frame in which the crucial questions of modern history and its meaning are, insistently, to…

Walking Since Daybreak

“A deeply moving and intellectually challenging view of modern history.”Los Angeles Times “…a beautiful meditation, written with both intellectual and moral urgency.”Publishers Weekly “…an important reassessment of WWII and it’s outcome… provocative and ambitious.”Kirkus Reviews  Winner Pearson Literary Prize Standaart Nthlds 2007Houghton Mifflin 1999Macmillan UK 2000 OPKey Porter Canada 1999Atena Latvia 2002 Walking Since Daybreak In…

Reviews for Solar Dance

Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery, and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age Solar Dance: Van Gogh, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty  Knopf Canada 2012Harvard University Press 2012 Reviews for Solar Dance Van Gogh, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty “Solar Dance conveys the heady atmosphere that made Berlin the first European capital to embrace the…

Solar Dance

Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery, and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age Solar Dance: Van Gogh, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty Modris Eksteins is the author of acclaimed books on modernism, Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age and Walking Since Daybreak: A story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Heart of Our…