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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 |
Christopher Isherwood
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 208 pages Rating: 3.94 | 9158 Users | 692 Reviews
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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 cover
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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) |
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Ratings: 3.94 From 9158 Users | 692 ReviewsRate Of Books Goodbye to Berlin (The Berlin Novels #2)
4.5 stars.Since watching it for the first time over Christmas, I've become quite alarmingly obsessed with the film Cabaret, to the point where I am now (possibly misguidedly) writing one of my final undergraduate essays on it. So, naturally, in light of that, I decided that I absolutely had to read the original source material behind the film, Goodbye to Berlin. Furthermore, at the time when I read it, I was trying to finish up my dissertation on expatriation and was looking for some furtherI actually finished this book four days ago but had to fly to Sydney before I had a chance to write up a review, and then I come home and it's 39-freaking-degrees. Stupid Melbourne weather. Anyway, I didn't think about this book once while I was lounging by the pool or frolicking in the surf like the good little Australian that I am (the stereotype broke down when I took out my copy of Great Expectations, but it was nice while it lasted), which goes to show that it wasn't really that great.
My 80th book of the year and my 9th book of October. It really has been a fantastic reading month already. Mostly because I've been alone in the house and the weather has been poor, worse than poor; it has been raining on and off in a fine drizzle that never looks too bad until it soaks you through. Anyway, enough about the weather. How English of me.And speaking of English, Isherwood himself is the narrator of Goodbye to Berlin. In a way, it's sort of like Cusk's 'Outline'. There are 6 parts,
Christopher Isherwood is a master at describing what he sees without explicit judgement. Goodbye to Berlin is an entertaining portrayal of the life of an Englishman and some of the eccentric people he encounters in Berlin in the early 1930s as the significance of the Nazis was becoming more apparent. A very enjoyable but sobering novel.
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.
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
First published in 1939, Christopher Isherwoods Goodbye to Berlin consists of a series of six interlinked short stories/sketches inspired by the authors time in the city during the early 1930s. Originally destined to form part of a large episodic novel focusing on the pre-Hitler era, Goodbye can now be viewed as a companion piece to Isherwoods earlier novel, Mr Norris Changes Trains (1935). Together, the two books form The Berlin Novels, published in the UK by Vintage Books. Given the fact that
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