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Affascinante, straricco, amato senza remore dalle donne – e dagli uomini – della sua vita, eppure ignaro dell’effetto che provoca sugli altri, Stephen Monk si trova a riavvolgere il nastro della propria esistenza, devastata dalla crisi del suo ultimo matrimonio. Mentre il mondo precipita a velocità vertiginosa verso il baratro della seconda guerra mondiale, Monk torna dopo oltre trent’anni alla casa della sua ...

The love story between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy-in their own wordsThe English novelist and screenwriter Christopher Isherwood was already famous as the author of Goodbye to Berlin when he met Don Bachardy, a California teenager, on the beach in Santa Monica in 1952. Within a year, they began to live together as an openly gay couple, defying convention in the closeted world of Hollywood. Isherwood was forty-eight, Bachardy was eig...

This second volume of Christopher Isherwood's remarkable diaries opens on his fifty-sixth birthday, as the fifties give way to the decade of social and sexual revolution. Isherwood takes the reader from the bohemian sunshine of Southern California to a London finally swinging free of post-war gloom, to the racy cosmopolitanism of New York and to the raw Australian outback. He charts his ongoing quest for spiritual certainty under the guidance ...

Isherwoods letztes und persönlichstes Buch: Am Vorabend des Zweiten Weltkriegs reist der überzeugte Pazifist Isherwood nach Kalifornien, um die überkommenen linksintellektuellen Überzeugungen, die die Welt an den Rand des Abgrunds geführt haben, hinter sich zu lassen und ein neues Mindset zu finden. Er trifft auf Swami Prabhavananda, einen hinduistischen Mönch, der von nun an sein spiritueller Begleiter sein wird. Es folgt ein Leben zwischen d...

I make myself remember. I am afraid of forgetting. I will have to forget if I want to go on living." California, 1962. College professor George is grieving the death of his long-term partner Jim. As a middle-aged gay Englishman living in the Los Angeles suburbs, he is an outsider in every way. Haunted by his past and unable to move forward, we follow him on one very ordinary day. But for George, this is going to be a day like no other... A...

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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 Writ...

Ein großer Roman darüber, was es bedeutet, jemandem ein Bruder zu sein Nach langem Schweigen treffen zwei Londoner Brüder in einem hinduistischen Kloster am Ufer des Ganges wieder aufeinander - und mit ihnen zwei Welten, die nicht vereinbar scheinen. Zwischen den beiden entspinnt sich ein Zwiegespräch, das alte Wunden aufbricht und zu großen Fragen führt. Isherwoods letzter Roman ist eine fein gestrickte Auseinandersetzung mit östlicher Myst...

Londra, 1933. Genc yazar Christopher Isherwoodun yolu Avusturyali yönetmen Friedrich Bergmanninkiyle kesisir. 19. yüzyil Viyanasinda gecen bir ask filminin senaryosunu yazmayi kabul eden Isherwood, kendini yepyeni bir dünyada, film stüdyosunu dolduran birbirinden ilginc kisilerin arasinda bulur. Stüdyonun disindaysa gerilimli bir dünya vardir Hitler artan gücünü hissettirmekte, büyük bir savasin ayak sesleri duyulmaktadir. Bergmann, Viyanada k...

I'm the type which every man imagines he wants, until he gets me, and then he finds he doesn't really, after all'Goodbye to Berlin is the novella that inspired Cabaret, evoking the glamour and sleaze, excess and repression of Berlin society. Isherwood shows the lives of people under threat from the rise of the Nazis: a wealthy Jewish heiress, Natalia Landauer, a gay couple, Peter and Otto, and an English upper-class waif, the divinely decadent...

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Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable ten years in the writer's life--from 1929, when Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitely, to 1939, when he arrived in America. When the book was published in 1976, readers were deeply impressed by the courageous candor with which he describes his life in gay Berlin of the 1930s and his struggles to save his companion, Heinz, from the Nazis. An eng...

Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable ten years in the writer's life--from 1929, when Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitely, to 1939, when he arrived in America. When the book was published in 1976, readers were deeply impressed by the courageous candor with which he describes his life in gay Berlin of the 1930s and his struggles to save his companion, Heinz, from the Nazis. An eng...

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„Isherwoods bester Roman. Ein unwiderstehliches Buch." New York Times Im Hintergrund war immer Berlin. Es rief mich jede Nacht, mit der rauen, verführerischen Stimme einer Grammophonplatte. Berlin hatte mich gepackt wie eine Party, nach deren Ende ich nicht nach Hause wollte. Berlin 1928. Ein junger Engländer namens Christopher Isherwood lässt sich durch das wilde Nachtleben treiben. Eine griechische Insel 1932. Hier lässt sich Christopher mit...