Goodbye to Berlin

ISBN-13: 9780811220248 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 224 str.

Christopher Isherwood

Opis

First published in 1934, Goodbye to Berlin has been popularized on stage and screen by Julie Harris in I Am a Camera and Liza Minelli in Cabaret. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafes; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers; dangerous, with its vice and intrigue; powerful and seedy, with its mobs and millionaires this was the period when Hitler was beginning his move to power. Goodbye to Berlin is inhabited by a wealth of characters: the unforgettable and divinely decadent Sally Bowles; plump Frau]lein Schroeder, who considers reducing her Bu]steto relieve her heart palpitations; Peter and Otto, a gay couple struggling to come to terms with their relationship; and the distinguished and doomed Jewish family, the Landauers."

O autorze

Christopher Isherwood wurde 1904 in der Grafschaft Cheshire als Sohn eines englischen Offiziers geboren. Nach erfolglosen Studien der Geschichte und Medizin in Cambridge und London ging er 1929 nach Berlin. Von 1942 bis zu seinem Tod im Jahr 1986 lebte er im kalifornischen Santa Monica. Christopher Isherwood zählt zu den berühmtesten Schriftstellern seiner Generation.