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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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 評分 評分誰都想要一個像伊殊伍德這樣的好基友吧。一起玩,互相寫明信片,談論讀瞭什麼書,更新和男朋友的狀況等等。 《再見柏林》裏英國女孩莎莉鮑爾斯的故事後來發展齣音樂劇Cabaret。伊殊伍德的角色被寫進三角戀劇情。《再見柏林》雖然沒提奧登和Stephen Spender,不過伊殊伍德跑去...
評分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...
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
要再看一遍!
評分Cabaret電影版拍得真好, 當然也多虧瞭John Kander的音樂,劇情改編不少,不過每次看書裏寫到Sally說my darling時Liza的臉就浮現在眼前,形象和氣質都太像瞭。
評分a society in decay... 因為無法阻止衰落的腳步,在茫然帶來的恐懼中喘著最後的幾口氣,這個過程之漫長讓人學會瞭習慣一切,就像Frl. Schroeder一樣蜷縮在小公寓裏也不得不做起瞭傢務
評分山雨欲來風滿樓的柏林
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
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