A witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched documentary traces and biographical fragments, 1913 is an intimate cultural portrait of a world that is about to change forever.The stuffy conventions of the nineteenth century are receding into the past, and 1913 heralds a new age of unlimited possibility. Kafka falls in love, Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet, a young seamstress called Coco Chanel opens her first boutique, Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract, and new dru ...