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| Original Title: | Goodbye to Berlin |
| ISBN: | 0586047956 (ISBN13: 9780586047958) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Berlin Novels #2 |
| Setting: | Berlin,1930(Germany) Rügen,1931(Germany) |
Christopher Isherwood
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 208 pages Rating: 3.94 | 9158 Users | 692 Reviews
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| Title | : | Goodbye to Berlin (The Berlin Novels #2) |
| Author | : | Christopher Isherwood |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | UK / Ireland / AUS / NZ |
| Pages | : | Pages: 208 pages |
| Published | : | 1977 by Triad Panther (first published 1939) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Short Stories. Cultural. Germany |
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Here, meine Damen und Herren, is Chrisopther Isherwood's brilliant farewell to a city which was not only buildings, streets, and people, but was also a state of mind which will never come around again. In linked short stories, he says goodbye to Sally Bowles, to Fraulein Schroeder, to pranksters, perverts, political manipulators; to the very, very guilty and to the dwindling band of innocents. It is goodbye to a Berlin wild, wicked, breathtaking, decadent beyond belief and already - in the years between the wars - welcoming death in through the door, though more with a wink than a whimper. ~from the back coverRating Appertaining To Books Goodbye to Berlin (The Berlin Novels #2)
Ratings: 3.94 From 9158 Users | 692 ReviewsCrit Appertaining To Books Goodbye to Berlin (The Berlin Novels #2)
A glimpse of life in Berlin between the wars. Told through a series of stories each presents a different side to Berlin and to characters from all walks of life. Certainly a novel well able to deliver mood and atmosphere for the period depicted. Mostly enjoyed the characters although the presence of Sally Bowles was quite different to what I remembered having seen Cabaret many years ago.Well worth a look at...... another from the Boxall 1000 list."It is strange how people seem to belong to places especially to places where they were not born..."Christopher Isherwood brings us fragments of his time in lost Berlin. The odd, bewildered people that he met along the way, the friends who somehow naturally dissolved in and out of each page, the magnitude of the city as it moved within them as their stories unfolded. Sally Bowles was my favourite, Capote's Holly Golightly couldn't even touch her. The book is divided into sections that give a
I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking (p.1)...I catch sight of my face in the mirror of a shop, and am horrified to see that I am smiling. You can't help smiling, in such beautiful weather. The trams are going up and down the Kleiststrasse, just as usual. They, and the people on the pavement, and the tea cosy-cosy dome of the Nollendorfplatz station have an air of a curious familiarity, of striking resemblance to something one remembers as normal and
Whilst in Berlin recently we went to see Cabaret in German in a spiegeltent. Splendid. Naturally I was looking forward to reading about the very same Sally Bowles in this book, but it turns out that Sally Bowles is a complete English Arse. Utterly unbearable. I think it would be fair to say she's been thoroughly fixed up for the musical and bravo for that decision. Certainly this book improves on the pages in which she is not to be found. There is much to separate this book from Kästner's Going
I had mixed feelings about this book. I found it to be important and, at times, interesting, but not what I expected. It also had this derivative quality, reminding me of other books I've read. Unfortunately for the author, these were books written after this was published and so no fault of his own. But yet it still felt that way. The character of Sally Knowles is Holly Golightly. Bernhard Landauer was Gatsby, particularly in the scene where he has a garden party and plays as though he's having
Although I had not read any of his works, I always had a prejudice against Christopher Isherwood. I placed him amongst the British writers who played at being communist in the 1930s, but then resorted to their class background during the Cold War and became pillars of the establishment. Maybe they were serious writers, but they were dilettantes at life. I read Goodbye to Berlin because it was on the shelves of the house I stayed in while on holiday and I found that I enjoyed it. Isherwood had
Isherwoods writing is absolutely poetic and yet so lucid. His goodbyes to a horde of eccentric yet interesting characters in his life spent in Berlin, during the Weimar Republic supremacy, is described most phenomenally. His narrative binds the reader to these characters brusqueness and curtness which is most fascinating. The characters in all the five stories are described in a sort of poetic manner and in a very delicate yet brisk tone in the thick of change in the tide during the political
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