Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin

Cover: 9780749390549 | Goodbye to Berlin | Christopher Isherwood | Taschenbuch | 256 S.

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1930s Berlin is a realm of glamour and sleaze, excess and repression.

Having moved to the city to work on his novel, Christopher finds himself immersed in a world of contradiction. He becomes enamoured with the local denizens and the colourful lives they lead, meeting an English upper-class waif, the delightfully decadent Sally Bowles; a couple - Peter and Otto - who are struggling with their sexual identities; and a distinguished and doomed Jewish family, the Landauers. With the Nazis rising to power, Christopher's Berlin is a sparkling city perched on the edge of an abyss.

'Isherwood is a master' Evening Standard

'Brilliant sketches of a society in decay' George Orwell

'Reading this novel is much like overhearing anecdotes in a crowded bar while history knocks impatiently at the windows' Guardian

Über den 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.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2003
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Vintage Classics
Inhalt:	256 S.
ISBN-13:	9780749390549
ISBN-10:	0749390549
Sprache:	Englisch
Originalsprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	B-format paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Isherwood, Christopher
Hersteller:	Random House UK Ltd Vintage
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße:	195 x 130 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Christopher Isherwood
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.08.2003
Gewicht:	0,196 kg