Goodbye to Berlin
Goodbye to Berlin is inhabited by a wealth of characters: the unforgettable and “divinely decadent”Sally Bowles; plump Fraulein Schroeder, who considers reducing her Buste relieve her heart palpitations; Peter and Otto, a gay couple ...
Author: Christopher Isherwood
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811220257
Category: Fiction
Page: 224
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The Berlin Stories
A two-in-one volume containing the works The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin finds the characters of Sally Bowles, Fräulein Schroeder, and the doomed Landauers caught up by the nightlife, danger, and mystique of 1931 Berlin.
Author: Christopher Isherwood
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811218047
Category: Fiction
Page: 398
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Auden and Isherwood
A unique biography of two literary giants and the city that was to change their lives.
Author: Norman Page
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312227128
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 220
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Down There on a Visit
Published in 1959, when Isherwood had already become something of a literary rock star, Down There on a Visit is a very funny but also sad and deeply personal book that charts Isherwood's life of carnal indulgence and his first interlude ...
Author: Christopher Isherwood
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466853336
Category: Fiction
Page: 322
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British and Irish Literature and Its Times
The final chapter of Goodbye to Berlin, “A Berlin Diary (Winter 1932-3),” mirrors
the opening chapter. Fragmentary and highly subjective, it discloses
Christopher's ideas and fantasies about Berlin, providing intense descriptions of
his social ...
Author: Joyce Moss
Publisher: Gale / Cengage Learning
ISBN:
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 579
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Berlin
sense of foreboding of the pre-Nazi period in wry, understated prose in such
novels as Mr Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin. Isherwood came to
Berlin with W. H. Auden in 1929 and left four years later, shortly after Hitler
replaced ...
Author: Andrew Gumbel
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
ISBN: 9780871062383
Category: Travel
Page: 260
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Stephen Spender
Goodbye to Berlin was orginally conceived as part of a huge episodic novel of
pre - Hitler Berlin ' ( Goodbye to Berlin . p . 6 ) . The book , which Isherwood
planned to call The Lost , was never completed – but it is tempting to think that it
would ...
Author: Hugh David
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN:
Category: Authors, English
Page: 308
View: 587
The World in the Evening
Today, readers herald Christopher Isherwood's frank portrayal of bisexuality and his early appreciation of low and high camp.
Author: Christopher Isherwood
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374711062
Category: Fiction
Page: 312
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The Berlin of Sally Bowles
As a step towards immortality , her story was included in his novel , Goodbye to
Berlin , and she is as alive as ever in its successful adaptation for the stage and
screen by John van Druten , I am a Camera , and in the dazzling film , Cabaret ...
Author: Christopher Isherwood
Publisher: London : Hogarth Press
ISBN:
Category: Berlin (Germany)
Page: 581
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Christopher Isherwood as a Novelist
42 In the Preface to Goodbye to Berlin , Isherwood tells the readers that certain
characters and situations in Mr . Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin
overlap . The explanation is that once the adventures of Mr . Norris formed part of
...
Author: Ranjita Coondoo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category: Autobiographical fiction, English
Page: 338
View: 851
National Union Catalog
Great Events from History 1848 1983
The gay characters and the character of freespirited Sally Bowles of Goodbye to
Berlin were an inspiration to gay men and others , as was Christopher Isherwood
himself . Isherwood was one of the early prominent gays to come out and live ...
Author: Lillian Faderman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781587652646
Category: Gay community
Page: 785
View: 672
The Atlantic Literary Review
Of these four , Mr . Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin are the ones
belonging to the Berlin period . Both form the famous Berlin Stories , and we
know that even though they are two books , Isherwood ' s initial project was to
make ...
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Category: English literature
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Acta Universitatis Lodziensis
FOLIA LITTERARIA ANGLICA 2 , 1998 Maria Edelson FOTOGRAFIE MIASTA
NIERZECZYWISTEGO OBRAZ ZIEMI JAŁOWEJ W GOODBYE TO BERLIN
CHRISTOPHERA ISHERWOODA Wiele osób w Polsce przynajmniej słyszało o
filmie z ...
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Category: American literature
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Christopher Isherwood
15 Goodbye to Berlin In an introductory note to the first edition of Goodbye to
Berlin , Isherwood calls his book a loosely - connected sequence of diaries and
sketches ' ( p 287 ) . Many readers and critics have taken him at his word and
have ...
Author: Brian Finney
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category: Authors, English
Page: 336
View: 896
Berlin
Into this gloomy scene , another Englishman , Christopher Isherwood , arrived in
Berlin for a stay that would provide the material for the books that were to make
him famous : Goodbye to Berlin and Mr Norris Changes Trains . Isherwood had ...
Author: Anthony Read
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category: Berlin (Germany)
Page: 341
View: 765
Studies in English and American Literature
FOLIA LITTERARIA ANGLICA 2 , 1998 Maria Edelson FOTOGRAFIE MIASTA
NIERZECZYWISTEGO OBRAZ ZIEMI JAŁOWEJ W GOODBYE TO BERLIN
CHRISTOPHERA ISHERWOODA Wiele osób w Polsce przynajmniej słyszało o
filmie z ...
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Category: American literature
Page:
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Christopher and His Kind
The Berlin novels leave out agreat deal which I now want toremember; they also
falsify eventsand alter datesfor ... in May 1930,soonafter Christopher's return from
London, thathemet theyouth who iscalled OttoNowak in Goodbye to Berlin.
Author: Christopher Isherwood
Publisher: North Point Press
ISBN: 1466853298
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 494
View: 678
The Will to Believe
Information in Goodbye to Berlin is apparently recorded arbitrarily , but it is made
clear from the beginning that the novel does not purport to be an impersonal
record of reality – it is an artistic version of it ; ' some day , all this will have to be ...
Author: Richard Johnstone
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780192814807
Category: Belief and doubt in literature
Page: 144
View: 187
Christopher Isherwood
The two “ Diaries ” in Goodbye to Berlin are unusually ( but understandably ,
given their form ) revealing in their presentation of the interior shape of the
narrator ' s affective being . In response to the objects and people he sees in his
room and ...
Author: Alan Wilde
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category: Autobiographical fiction, English
Page: 171
View: 245