Christopher Isherwood Ordre des livres

Die Buchanmerkung umfasst die Werke „Lauter gute Absichten“, „Das Denkmal“, „Praterveilchen“ und „Die Welt am Abend“.

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.

Don, whose portraits of London theatreland were making his name, attends the world premiere of The Innocents with Truman Capote and afterwards dines with Deborah Kerr and the rest of the cast, spends weekends with Tennessee Williams, Cecil Beton, or the Earl and Countess of Harewood, and tours Egypt and Greece with a new love interest.

Berlínské povídky jsou souborným vydáním dvou původně samostatně publikovaných svazků, novely Konec pana Norrise a souboru kratších povídek Sbohem Berlíne. Autor v knize představuje věkově, sociálně i národnostně pestrou paletu charakterů Berlína třicátých let: záhadného noblesního hochštaplera, bohatého dětinského barona, mladoufrivolní začínající zpěvačku, všetečnou postarší bytnou, chudou berlínskou rodinu, rodinu bohatých židovských obchodníků, atd. Všechny tyto živé a plastické postavy spojuje formálně postava vypravěče, autorovo literární alter ego; postavy vstupují do jeho života, z nenadání jej zase opouští, ale zanechávají v něm svou unikátní stopu. A pak je to samozřejmě Berlín jako takový – kvetoucí evropská metropole s bujarým nočním životem, kavárnami a rušnými ulicemi – dalo by se říct, že tvoří tu nejvýznamnější postavu ze všech. Někde v pozadí ale cítíme i narůstající politické napětí a hrozbu nacismu. Všechny Isherwoodovy postavy se s nastalou situací musejí nějak vyrovnat, ať už je politika zajímá či nikoliv.

In the final volume of Christopher Isherwood's diaries, he reflects on aging with humor and curiosity. He explores Hinduism, writes his last works, and engages with the vibrant art scenes of the 1970s alongside his partner, Don Bachardy. The narrative captures a rich tapestry of cultural encounters amid significant historical events.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PICO IYERIn September 1947, long before mass tourism and with no knowledge of Spanish, Christopher Isherwood and William Caskey left for a six-month tour of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina.

This is the story of Christopher Isherwood's parents - their meeting in 1895, marriage in 1903 after his father had returned from the Boer War, and his father's death in an assault on Ypres in 1915, which left his mother a widow until her own death in 1960.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES FENTONSubtitled 'An education in the twenties', this work blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public school boy to Cambridge drop- out at large in London's Bohemia.

Frpm Hollywood and the worlds of music and letters enter John Huston, Merchant and Ivory, John Travolta, John Voight, Elton John, David Bowie, Joan Didion and Armistead Maupin.

In 1939, as Europe approaches war, the author, an instinctive pacifist, travels west to California, seeking a new set of beliefs to replace the failed Leftism of the thirties. There he meets Swami Prabhavananda, a Hindu monk, who will become his spiritual guide for the next thirty-seven years. This title tells his story.