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Prater Violet

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : North Point Press
ISBN 13 : 146685328X
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Prater Violet written by Christopher Isherwood and published by North Point Press. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prater Violet concerns the filming of an unashamedly romantic and commercial musical about old Vienna. It is a stinging satirical novel about the film industry, trifling studio feuds, and the fatuous movie Prater Violet, which, ironically, counterpoints the tragic events on the world stage as Hitler's lengthening shadow falls over the real Vienna of the thirties. At its center are vivid portraits of the mocking genius Friedrich Bergmann, the imperious, dazzlingly witty Austrian director, and his disciple, a genial young screenwriter-the fictionalized Christopher Isherwood. When it first appeared in 1945, Prater Violet caused a fury of critical speculation and acclaim. Edmund Wilson called it "a deliberate historical parable," and Diana Trilling's Nation review said, "Prater Violet is the most charming novel I have read in a long time... It is a book written in the author's own person, yet utterly without ego; it is a novel about movie writers which is yet a novel about the life of every serious artist; it is a book without a political moral, but a profound moral-political statement; it is gay, witty, sophisticated, but wholly responsible.

All the Conspirators

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811222616
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book All the Conspirators written by Christopher Isherwood and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timeless story of decaying middle-class English life after wwI and the generation that tried to escape its values Christopher Isherwood was only twenty-one when he began his first novel, All the Conspirators. in his introduction to the American edition, Isherwood explains: “All the Conspirators records a minor engagement in what Shelley calls ‘the great war between the old and young.’ And what a war it was!” in many ways this novel (like the classic Berlin Stories) is a period piece growing out of a particular historical situation—clashes between parents and children with all their passionate moral struggles. Isherwood’s vivid portrayal of an older generation trying to hold on while a younger generation tries to wrench free still resonates and disarms.

Down There on a Visit

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099561085
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Down There on a Visit written by Christopher Isherwood and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interweaving semi-autobiography with fiction, and taking the reader through relationships with 4 very different men, from 1930s Germany and prewar Greece to decadent Hollywood, Isherwood provides a black and witty portrait of the writer abroad.

A Single Man

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466853344
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book A Single Man written by Christopher Isherwood and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to sunny suburban 1960s Southern California. George is a gay middle-aged English professor, adjusting to solitude after the tragic death of his young partner. He is determined to persist in the routines of his former life. A Single Man follows him over the course of an ordinary twenty-four hours. Behind his British reserve, tides of grief, rage, and loneliness surge—but what is revealed is a man who loves being alive despite all the everyday injustices. When Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man first appeared, it shocked many with its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in maturity. Isherwood's favorite of his own novels, it now stands as a classic lyric meditation on life as an outsider.

The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature

Author : Laura Marcus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521820776
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature written by Laura Marcus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Queer Times

Author : Jamie M. Carr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113552064X
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Queer Times written by Jamie M. Carr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book maps Christopher Isherwood's intellectual and aesthetic reflections from the late 1930s through the late 1970s. Drawing on the queer theory of Eve Sedgwick and the ethical theory of Michel Foucault, Carr illuminates Isherwood's post-war development of a queer ethos through his focus on the aesthetic, social, and historical politics of the 1930s in his novels Prater Violet (1945), The World in the Evening (1954), and Down There on a Visit (1962), and in his memoir, Christopher and His Kind: 1929–1939 (1976).

Christopher Isherwood

Author : Paul Piazza
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231513586
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Christopher Isherwood written by Paul Piazza and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Isherwood

Isherwood

Author : Peter Parker
Publisher : Picador USA
ISBN 13 : 9781509859405
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (594 download)

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Download or read book Isherwood written by Peter Parker and published by Picador USA. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into the English landed gentry, the heir to a substantial country estate, Christopher Isherwood ended up in California, an American citizen and the disciple of a Hindu swami. En route, he became a leading writer of the 1930's generation, an unmatched chronicler of pre-Hitler Berlin, an experimental dramatist, a war reporter, a travel writer, a pacifist, a Hollywood screenwriter, a monk, and a grand old man of the emerging gay liberation movement. In this biography, the first to be written since Isherwood's death, and the only one with access to all Isherwood's papers, Peter Parker traces the long journey of a man who never felt at home wherever he lived. Isherwood's travels were a means of escape: from his family, his class, his country, and the dead weight of the past. Parker reveals the truth about Isherwood's relationship with his war-hero father, his strong-willed mother, and his disturbed younger brother, Richard, who was also homosexual. He also draws upon a vast number of letters to describe Isherwood's complicated relationships with such lifelong friends as W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Edward Upward and John Lehmann. The result is a frank portrait of contradictions, a man searching for meaning in life, and one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.

Lions and Shadows

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374187703
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Lions and Shadows written by Christopher Isherwood and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A witty, appealing, and often outrageous portrait of some of the twentieth century's most influential and creative minds Subtitled "An Education in the Twenties," Lions and Shadows blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious schoolboy to Cambridge dropout-at-large in London's bohemia. It contains thinly veiled portraits of Christopher Isherwood's contemporaries W. H. Auden, Edward Upward, and Stephen Spender, whose intimate friendships and cult of rebellion shaped the literary identity of England in the 1930s. Witty and outrageous, Isherwood pokes fun at the stars of his generation, above all himself, even as he testifies to their unique early gifts.

Isherwood on Writing

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452968144
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Isherwood on Writing written by Christopher Isherwood and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isherwood’s lectures on writing and writers, now all available for the first time In the 1960s, Christopher Isherwood gave an unprecedented series of lectures at California universities about his life and work. During this time Isherwood, who would liberate the memoir and become the founding father of modern gay writing, spoke openly for the first time about his craft—on writing for film, theater, and novels—and spirituality. Isherwood on Writing brings these free-flowing, wide-ranging public addresses together to reveal a distinctly American Isherwood at the top of his form. This updated edition contains the long-lost conclusion to the second lecture, published here for the first time, including its discussion of A Single Man, his greatest novel, and A Meeting by the River, his final novel.

Queer Times

Author : Jamie M. Carr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135520712
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Queer Times written by Jamie M. Carr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book maps Christopher Isherwood's intellectual and aesthetic reflections from the late 1930s through the late 1970s. Drawing on the queer theory of Eve Sedgwick and the ethical theory of Michel Foucault, Carr illuminates Isherwood's post-war development of a queer ethos through his focus on the aesthetic, social, and historical politics of the 1930s in his novels Prater Violet (1945), The World in the Evening (1954), and Down There on a Visit (1962), and in his memoir, Christopher and His Kind: 1929–1939 (1976).

The Isherwood Century

Author : James J. Berg
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299167042
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book The Isherwood Century written by James J. Berg and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for Goodbye to Berlin -- the inspiration for the Tony and Oscar award-winning musical Cabaret -- Christopher Isherwood has always been considered both a literary and a gay pioneer. That is truer now than ever. Readers of his plays, novels, and diaries continue to discover Isherwood's lasting contribution to twentieth-century culture, literature, autobiographical fiction, and memoir, to gay rights, and to twentieth-century culture.

Why Love Leads to Justice

Author : David A. J. Richards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107129109
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Why Love Leads to Justice written by David A. J. Richards and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the stories of notable historical figures whose resistance of patriarchal laws transformed ethical, political, and legal standards.

Christopher Isherwood

Author : David Garrett Izzo
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570034039
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Christopher Isherwood written by David Garrett Izzo and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first thorough examination of Isherwood's work and life in twenty years, Izzo's analysis brings into play the Mortmere stories, by Isherwood and Edward Upward (dating from the 1920s but published only in 1994), and the Diaries, 1939-1960, published in 1996, to reposition Isherwood within a circle of British writers that included - besides Upward - W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and Cecil Day Lewis.

Isherwood's Fiction

Author : Lisa M. Schwerdt
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349199869
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Isherwood's Fiction written by Lisa M. Schwerdt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-03 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the changing relationship between the writer and his protagonists, exploring how Isherwood's fiction achieves artistic integration and literary significance only when it reflects his personal concerns through theme and technique as he experiments with new narrative strategies.

The Nickel Was for the Movies

Author : Gavriel Moses
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520341228
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Nickel Was for the Movies written by Gavriel Moses and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cinephobic novelist who complains to Fitzgerald's tycoon that he will never get the hang of scriptwriting wouldn't give a nickel for the movies. Yet never before the appearance of film had human perception been engaged in such an all-encompassing way by a single art form. In this ambitious investigation of a little-studied narrative genre, Gavriel Moses defines and explores "the film novel," a literary text in which cinema provides the thematic, formal, psychological, and philosophical center. Through close readings of works by the major representatives of the genre—Pirandello, Nabokov, Isherwood, West, Fitzgerald, Moravia, Percy, Puig—Moses develops a suggestive theory of novels that use literature to investigate the central role that film has acquired in human experience. These novels, because of their fascination with filmmaker and spectator alike, and because they anticipate current views of the questions of cinema, remain a tangible presence within the repertoire of literary modernism. Offering insightful discussions of Laughter in the Dark, Lancelot, Kiss of the Spider Woman, and other film novels, Moses shows the depth of the exchange between literature and cinema and illustrates the extent to which the way we tell stories with words has been affected by the movies. His book will be of wide interest to literary scholars, film historians, and students of cinema and the novel.

Isherwood in Transit

Author : James J. Berg
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452963282
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Isherwood in Transit written by James J. Berg and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New perspectives on Christopher Isherwood as a searching and transnational writer “Perhaps I had traveled too much, left my heart in too many places,” muses the narrator of Christopher Isherwood’s novel Prater Violet (1945), which he wrote in his adopted home of Los Angeles after years of dislocation and desperation. In Isherwood in Transit, James J.Berg and Chris Freeman bring together diverse Isherwood scholars to understand the challenges this writer faced as a consequence of his travel. Based on a conference at the Huntington Library, where Isherwood’s recently opened papers are held, Isherwood in Transit considers the writer not as an English, continental, or American writer but as a transnational one, whose identity, politics, and beliefs were constantly transformed by global connections and engagements arising from journeys to Germany, Japan, China, and Argentina; his migration to the United States; and his conversion to Vedanta Hinduism in the 1940s. Approaching Isherwood’s rootlessness and restlessness from various perspectives, these essays show that long after he made a new home in California and became an American citizen, Christopher Isherwood remained unsettled, although his wanderings became spiritual and personal rather than geographic. Contributors: Barrie Jean Borich, DePaul U; Jamie Carr, Niagara U; Robert L. Caserio, Penn State U, University Park; Lisa Colletta, American U of Rome; Lois Cucullu, U of Minnesota; Jaime Harker, U of Mississippi; Carola M. Kaplan, California State U, Pomona; Calvin W. Keogh, Central European U, Budapest; Victor Marsh; Wendy Moffat, Dickinson College; Xenobe Purvis; Bidhan Roy, California State U, Los Angeles; Katharine Stevenson, U of Texas at Austin; Edmund White.