The Berlin Stories - Christopher Isherwood

The Berlin Stories - Christopher Isherwood

Art Nr.: 081121804X

ISBN 13: 9780811218047

ReleaseYear: 2008

Published by: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Cover: Taschenbuch

Cover Format: 202x133x35 mm

Pages: 256

Weight: 467 g

Language: Englisch

Author: Christopher Isherwood

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First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two astonishing related novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin, which are recognized today as classics of modern fiction. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafés marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers dangerous, with its vice and intrigue powerful and seedy, with its mobs and millionaires-this is the period when Hitler was beginning his move to power. The Berlin Stories is inhabited by a wealth of characters: the unforgettable Sally Bowles, whose misadventures in the demimonde were popularized on the American stage and screen by Julie Harris in I Am A Camera and Liza Minnelli in Cabaret Mr. Norris, the improbable old debauchee mysteriously caught between the Nazis and the Communists plump Fräulein Schroeder, who thinks an operation to reduce the scale of her Büste might relieve her heart palpitations and the distinguished and doomed Jewish family, the Landauers.
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First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two astonishing related novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin, which are recognized today as classics of modern fiction. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafés; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers; dangerous, with its vice and intrigue; powerful and seedy, with its mobs and millionaires--this is the period when Hitler was beginning his move to power. The Berlin Stories is inhabited by a wealth of characters: the unforgettable Sally Bowles, whose misadventures in the demimonde were popularized on the American stage and screen by JulieHarris in I Am A Camera and Liza Minnelli in Cabaret; Mr. Norris, the improbable old debauchee mysteriously caught between the Nazis and the Communists; plump Fräulein Schroeder, and the distinguished and doomed Jewish family, the Landauers
Information of Author
Christopher Isherwood wurde 1904 in der Grafschaft Cheshire als Sohn eines englischen Offiziers geboren. Nach erfolglosen Studien der Geschichte und Medizin in Cambridge und London ging er 1929 nach Berlin. Von 1942 bis zu seinem Tod im Jahr 1986 lebte er im kalifornischen Santa Monica. Christopher Isherwood zählt zu den berühmtesten Schriftstellern seiner Generation.