Christopher Isherwood: Prater Violet

Cover: 9780099561132 | Prater Violet | Christopher Isherwood | Taschenbuch | 122 S. | 2012

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Beschreibung

With one impatient phone call, a young Christopher Isherwood is drawn into the film industry.

On the other end of the line is temperamental Austrian director Friedrich Bergmann. Christopher's job is to rescue the script of an idiotic love story set in nineteenth-century Vienna, a film called Prater Violet. Meanwhile, in the real Vienna of 1934, the Austrian right crushes a socialist uprising. Bergmann is distraught; his prophecy of a coming war goes unheeded. As tensions on set grow, studio intrigues and competing egos threaten to derail the whole project, and Hitler's shadow lengthens over Europe.

'A masterly novella' Guardian

'A deliberate historical parable. Prater Violet resembles episodes in Goodbye to Berlin and keeps up the same high level of excellence' New Yorker

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.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2012
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	122 S.
ISBN-13:	9780099561132
ISBN-10:	0099561131
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Isherwood, Christopher
Hersteller:	Vintage Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße:	195 x 128 x 10 mm
Von/Mit:	Christopher Isherwood
Erscheinungsdatum:	31.05.2012
Gewicht:	0,109 kg