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Il cinema ha un suo modo di affrontare i tempi più difficili, che da sempre consiste nel proporre agli spettatori i più facili fra i soggetti possibili. Così nella Londra degli ultimi anni Trenta, mentre tutti si preparano all'inevitabile, un volitivo produttore, Chatsworth, ritiene sia il momento giusto per mettere in cantiere un'operetta vagamente mitteleuropea, di quelle che vanno parecchio anche a Hollywood nello stesso periodo. Chatsworth...

Bremen, 1928. The Greek Islands, 1932. London, 1938. California, 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators all named Christopher Isherwood. Here are the postcards home from a spiritual tourist looking for a new mode of life as well as a new place to live while Europe, and then the world, moves relentlessly toward war. Which of the guides he encounters can lead him to a better future? The businessman, the utopian, the guru, the geisha...

A gay man copes with the death of his partner in Isherwood's classic novel, now a film written and directed by Tom Ford.

An indispensable memoir by one of the most prominent writers of his generationOriginally published in 1976, Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable ten years in the writer's life-from 1928, when Christopher Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitely, to 1939, when he arrived in America. His friends and colleagues during this time included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and E. M. Forster, a...

Prater Violet is the most charming novel I have read in a long time." -Diana TrillingOriginally published in 1945, Christopher Isherwood's Prater Violet is a stingingly satirical novel about the film industry. It centers around the production of the vacuous fictional melodrama Prater Violet, set in nineteenth-century Vienna, providing an ironic counterpoint to tragic events as Hitler annexes the real Vienna of the 1930s. The novel features viv...

On a train to Berlin in late 1930, William Bradshaw locks eyes with Arthur Norris, an irresistibly comical fellow Englishman wearing a rather obvious wig and nervous about producing his passport at the frontier. So begins a friendship conducted in the seedier quarters of the city, where Norris runs a dubious import-export business and lives in excited fear of his bullying secretary, his creditors, and his dominatrix girlfriend, Anni. As the wo...

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 ...

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MR NORRIS CHANGES TRAINSThe first of Christopher Isherwood's classic 'Berlin' novels, this portrays the encounter and growing friendship between young William Bradshaw and the urbane and mildly sinister Mr Norris. Piquant, witty and oblique, it vividly evokes the atmosphere of pre-war Berlin, and forcefully conveys an ironic political parable.GOODBYE TO BERLINThe inspiration for the stage and screen musical Cabaret and for the play I Am a Came...

Der Film Cabaret machte Christopher Isherwood zu einem weltberühmten Autor. Berühmt war er schon vorher: als Verfasser zweier großartiger Romane, die Anfang der Dreißiger Jahre im Berlin der beginnenden Nazi-Zeit spielen und zur Vorlage des Films wurden. Und, weil er mit Stephen Spender und W. H. Auden eine spektakuläre homosexuelle Ménage-à-Trois bildete. Seine offenherzigen Jugenderinnerungen aus Schule und Universität, Cambridge und London ...

Originally published in 1945, "Prater Violet" is a stingingly satirical novel about the film industry.

An engrossing look into the literary, social, and political life of this literary icon during Isherwood 's formative Berlin years (1929-1939).

When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner, and determines to persist in the routines of his daily life: the course of A Single Man spans twenty-four hours in an ordinary day. An Englishman and a professor living in suburban Southern California, he is an outside...

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Isherwood anthology that include two complete novels, PRATER VIOLET and A SINGLE MAN, and excerpts from several other works including THE BERLIN STORIES, which was the inspiration for the popular musical and film CABARET.