The Berlin Novels

ISBN-13: 9780749397029 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 512 str.

Christopher Isherwood

Opis

Piquant, witty and oblique, Christopher Isherwood's 'Berlin' novels vividly evoke the atmosphere of pre-war Berlin whilst forcefully conveying an ironic political parable. This volume features 'Mr Norris Changes Trains' and 'Goodbye to Berlin'.

Recenzje

Isherwood is one of the great mythmakers of his time. The Berlin Novels are masterpieces, funny, darkly innocent explorations of a world Berlin in the Thirties that is now as firmly in the past as Pompeii Observer

O autorze

Isherwood, ChristopherChristopher Isherwood (1904-1986) was one of the most celebrated writers of his generation. He left Cambridge without graduating, briefly studied medicine and then turned to writing his first novels, All the Conspirators and The Memorial. Between 1929 and 1939 he lived mainly abroad, spending four years in Berlin and writing the novels Mr Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin on which the musical Cabaret was based. He moved to America in 1939, becoming a US citizen in 1946, and wrote another five novels, including Down There on a Visit and A Single Man, a travel book about South America and a biography of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna. In the late 1960s and '70s he turned to autobiographical works: Kathleen and Frank, Christopher and His Kind, My Guru and His Disciple and October, one month of his diary with drawings by Don Bachardy.