Goodbye to Berlin

Born Aug. 26, 1904, High Lane, Cheshire, Eng. — died Jan. 4, 1986, Santa Monica, Calif., U.S. British-born U.S. writer.Educated at Cambridge University, he became close friends with W.H. Auden, with whom he traveled and collaborated on three verse dramas, including The Ascent of F6 (1936). He lived in Berlin from 1929 to 1933; his two novels about this period, later published together as The Berlin Stories (1946), inspired the play I Am a Camera (1951; film, 1955) and the musical Cabaret (1966; film, 1972). A pacifist, he moved to southern California at the beginning of World War II, where he taught and wrote screenplays. A follower of Swami Prabhavananda, he wrote and translated works on Indian Vedanta.

出版者:Vintage Classics

作者:Christopher Isherwood

页数:272

出版时间:1989-11-2

价格:GBP 8.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780749390549

丛书系列:Vintage Isherwood

图书标签:ChristopherIsherwood德国小说英国黑色幽默英国文学柏林外国文学

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Goodbye to Berlin is a short novel by Christopher Isherwood. It is often published together with The Last of Mr. Norris in a collection called The Berlin Stories.

The novel, a semiautobiographical account of Isherwood's time in 1930s Berlin, describes pre-Nazi Germany and the people he met.

Moving to Germany to work on his novel, Isherwood soon becomes involved with many different German citizens: The caring landlady, Frau. Shroeder; the "divinely decadent" Sally Bowles, a young English woman who sings in the local Cabaret; Natalia Laundauer, the rich, Jewish heiress of a prosperous family business; Peter and Otto, a couple struggling to accept their relationship in light of the rise of the Nazis.

The book, first published in 1939, ironically highlights the groups of people who would be most at risk from Nazi intimidation.

读后感

断断续续的用一个月看完这本书，幸好书的篇章不是太长和前后章节的逻辑性不是太强，不然像我每次重新看一个章节都会忘记主人公叫什么名字的人来说，绝对坚持不下来。不知道是不是人老了集中力衰退，以前看《百年孤独》，看一个月都不觉得累，现在看个两三页就情不自禁地翻后面...

用户评价

Love how he describes these fascinating characters in the book.esp. the mysterious jew. and the way he involves himself with all the people and the surrounding is just too good to be true

不同类别的人物如何用自己的方式对抗全社会不可察觉不可对抗的崩塌，以营造纪实感为主的语言亮点不多。在人类即将被历史车轮碾压的前一秒的年代，看着他们为一己微不足道又大过天的痛苦绞尽脑汁，真不知作什么滋味。

读原版书没什么快感

读原版书没什么快感

几乎是不带任何感情色彩，不带任何involvement感觉的描写30年代初的柏林，一个马上就要（再一次）成为历史漩涡核心的大城市普通人们的百态。就像作者自己说的，自己只不过是相机镜头，纯粹纪录而已。镜头一流，但是还有哪个城市能比柏林提供更好的素材呢