Cette série de romans transporte les lecteurs dans les rues tumultueuses de Berlin avant-guerre, en capturant son atmosphère vibrante mais précaire. Elle suit les expériences d'un étranger naviguant dans un monde de personnages excentriques et de décadence bohème. Par des observations pleines d'esprit et une prose incisive, les romans dépeignent une société au bord d'immenses changements et de dangers. Ces histoires offrent un aperçu captivant d'une ville et d'une époque assombries par un orage politique imminent.
After a chance encounter on a train the English teacher William Bradshaw starts a close friendship with the mildly sinister Arthur Norris. Norris is a man of contradictions; lavish but heavily in debt, excessively polite but sexually deviant. First published in 1933 Mr Norris Changes Trains piquantly evokes the atmosphere of Berlin during the rise of the Nazis.
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 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 an whimper. ~from the back cover
A classic of 20th-century fiction, "Berlin Stories" inspired the Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film "Cabaret." This newly released paperback edition features an Introduction by the acclaimed novelist Maupin.