Goodbye to Berlin
(Sprache: Englisch)
'The best prose writer in English' Gore Vidal
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'The best prose writer in English' Gore Vidal
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'Brilliant sketches of a society in decay' George OrwellChristopher Isherwood is the narrator of Goodbye to Berlin. His story obliquely evokes the gathering storm during the rise to power of the Nazis, as seen through the eyes of a series of individuals: his landlady Fräulein Schroeder; Sally Bowles, the English upper-class waif; the Nowaks, a struggling working-class family; and the Landauers, a wealthy, civilised family of Jewish store owners, whose lives are about to be ruined.
Wry, detached, impressionistic in approach, yet vividly eloquent about the brutal effect of public events on private lives, Goodbye to Berlin has long been recognised as one of the most powerful and popular novels of the twentieth century.
Autoren-Porträt von Christopher Isherwood
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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Christopher Isherwood
- 1989, 272 Seiten, Maße: 13 x 19,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Random House UK
- ISBN-10: 0749390549
- ISBN-13: 9780749390549
- Erscheinungsdatum: 12.08.2003
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Englisch
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"A great talent" Guardian "Isherwood is a master of the emotionally cathartic moment, funny and perspicacious" Evening Standard "A masterpiece" The Economist "[A] reminder of a bygone era, powerfully capturing the energy and sleaze of Weimar-era Berlin" Independent "Reading this novel is much like overhearing anecdotes in a crowded bar while history knocks impatiently at the windows" -- John Sutherland Guardian, 1000 novels everyone must read
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