The Berlin novels

Informationen zum Autor Christopher 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. Klappentext Christopher Isherwood gives fascinating insight into pre-war Berlin. MR NORRIS CHANGES TRAINS The first of Christopher Isherwood's classic 'Berlin' novels, this portrays the encounter and growing friendship between young William Bradshaw and the urbane and mildly sinister Mr Norris. Piquant, witty and oblique, it vividly evokes the atmosphere of pre-war Berlin, and forcefully conveys an ironic political parable. GOODBYE TO BERLIN The inspiration for the film Cabaret and for the play I Am a Camera, this novel remains one of the most powerful of the century, a haunting evocation of the gathering storm of the Nazi terror. Told in a series of wry, detached and impressionistic vignettes, it is an unforgettable portrait of bohemian Berlin, a city and a world on the very brink of ruin. Zusammenfassung Christopher Isherwood gives fascinating insight into pre-war Berlin. MR NORRIS CHANGES TRAINSThe first of Christopher Isherwood's classic 'Berlin' novels, this portrays the encounter and growing friendship between young William Bradshaw and the urbane and mildly sinister Mr Norris....

Commentaire

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

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Christopher Isherwood
• Edition: Vintage UK
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Poche format B
• Sortie: 14.01.1993
• EAN: 9780749397029
• ISBN: 978-0-7493-9702-9
• Pages: 512
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 32 mm
• Thèmes: Vintage Classics; VINTAGE CLASSICS
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); Berlin, Historischer Roman, Klassische Belletristik, FICTION / General, FICTION / Historical, FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, Englische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung, Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung, Berlin / Roman, Erzählung, Lyrik, Essay, classic historical fiction encounters friendship pre-war politics goodbye to berlin film; musical cabaret mr norris changes trains weimar republic hitler era nazism nazi years; everday jewish germans short stories fictionalised account entertaining; , Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945)