The Alienation Effect
How Central European E?migre?s Transformed the British Twentieth Century
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Product details:
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Date of Publication 26 March 2026
- Number of Volumes B-format paperback
- ISBN 9780141989778
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages608 pages
- Size 198x129x35 mm
- Weight 500 g
- Language English 700
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Britain. Made in Europe.
In the 1930s, tens of thousands of central Europeans sought sanctuary from fascism in Britain. While the rainy, seemingly quaint island they discovered on arrival was a far cry from the dynamism of Weimar Berlin or Red Vienna, it was safe, and it became home. Yet the e?migre?s had not arrived alone: they brought with them new and radical ideas, and as they began to rebuild their lives and livelihoods, they transformed the face of Britain forever.
Drawing on an immense cast of artists and intellectuals, including celebrated figures like Erno Goldfinger, forgotten luminaries like Ruth Glass, and a host of larger-than-life visionaries and charlatans, the historian Owen Hatherley argues that in the resulting clash between European modernism and British moderation, our imaginations were fundamentally realigned and remade for the better. In casting what Bertolt Brecht called, in a new German word, a Verfremdungseffekt, an ?alienation effect?, on Britain, the aliens made us all a little bit alien too.
Provocative, entertaining and meticulously researched, The Alienation Effect opens our eyes to the influence of the e?migre?s all around us ? many of our most quintessentially British icons are the product of this culture clash ? and entreats us to remember and renew our proud national tradition of asylum.
