A study of the major writers and artists who were grappling in 1930 with socio-political issues still central to our lives today, ranging from the dangers of mass culture to the rise of a politics of irrationality. The year 1930 can be seen as the dawn of a period of darkness, the beginning of a decade that Auden would style "low, dishonest." That year was one of the most reflective moments in modernity. After the optimism...
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