Adieu à Berlin
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9782012356450 (2012356451)
Publish date: August 14th 2002
Publisher: Hachette Littératures
Pages no: 298
Edition language: French
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
English Literature,
Short Stories,
Glbt,
Germany
I happened upon Christer Isherwood's 1939 book, "Goodbye to Berlin" on the shelves of The Strand in New York City. George Orwell had endorsed this book with the statement - "Brilliant sketches of a society in decay." This sparked my curiosity to read more about 1930s Berlin, and I now feel tremendo...
Christopher Isherwood lived in Berlin from 1929 to 1933 and kept detailed diaries, from which he created this novel. It's a slow mover, but it has a sense of reality that tells you Isherwood didn't stray too far from his diaries to create it. You see the gradual decline in the fortunes of people of ...
Isherwood's dramatic eyewitness account of Berlin in the early 30s, the book that inspired Cabaret. blurb - Living in Berlin as a young man, Isherwood encountered a range of vibrant characters both ordinary and extraordinary whose daily lives reflect a city and its people at a very particular time i...
Creepy in it's historical position, you want to be there because he writes so clearly but then something happens and you remember where he is and you don't.
13 years ago
Log in with Facebook 
