The dying years of the great depression; John Bischoffberger is a Pennsylvanian doctor adrift in Naples, Maine, struggling with his loss of religious faith and retreating from painful memories of The Great War.
A historical overview explains what modernist literature was by taking the reader through the major figures, ideas and movements, focusing particularly on the core years of 1890-1930 but also looking before to Modernism's influences and precursors and beyond to its continuation and legacy.
Book dedicated to Oskar Kokoschka's activity as a collector, and more particularly to the pieces kept in his workshop in Villeneuve in Switzerland: antiquities, curiosities acquired by the artist during his many travels or offered by friends.
