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.
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.
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斷斷續續的用一個月看完這本書,幸好書的篇章不是太長和前後章節的邏輯性不是太強,不然像我每次重新看一個章節都會忘記主人公叫什麼名字的人來說,絕對堅持不下來。不知道是不是人老瞭集中力衰退,以前看《百年孤獨》,看一個月都不覺得纍,現在看個兩三頁就情不自禁地翻後麵...
評分對伊捨伍德有所瞭解,是在讀瞭他與奧登閤著的那本《戰地行記》之後。上世紀30年代,盧溝橋事變引發中國全麵抗戰,伊捨伍德攜手好友奧登來到中國作瞭5個月的戰地旅行,閤作寫下瞭《戰地行紀》,真實地記錄瞭中國人民遭遇的戰爭苦難與不屈的民族精神,充滿人道主義的情懷。伊捨伍...
評分圖書標籤: ChristopherIsherwood 德國 小說 英國 黑色幽默 英國文學 柏林 外國文學
已成為我十佳書之一。不看絕對會後悔。第一遍我看到的是詼諧,對男主照相視角的周圍人的記錄十分好奇,急切想知道發生瞭什麼。Natalie的“I'm sorry I can't help you"每次讀到都要笑。 期待第二遍。
評分已成為我十佳書之一。不看絕對會後悔。第一遍我看到的是詼諧,對男主照相視角的周圍人的記錄十分好奇,急切想知道發生瞭什麼。Natalie的“I'm sorry I can't help you"每次讀到都要笑。 期待第二遍。
評分finally finished this reading assignment from the year 2012. "Reading this novel is much like overhearing anecdotes in a crowded bar while history knocks impatiently at the windows" - Guardian
評分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
評分進度1/3還是覺得無聊 不讀瞭 not for me
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