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Author | : Christopher Isherwood |
Publisher | : North Point Press |
Total Pages | : 111 |
Release | : 2013-11-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 146685328X |
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Prater Violet concerns the filming of an unashamedly romantic and commercial musical about old Vienna. It is a stinging satirical novel about the film industry, trifling studio feuds, and the fatuous movie Prater Violet, which, ironically, counterpoints the tragic events on the world stage as Hitler's lengthening shadow falls over the real Vienna of the thirties. At its center are vivid portraits of the mocking genius Friedrich Bergmann, the imperious, dazzlingly witty Austrian director, and his disciple, a genial young screenwriter-the fictionalized Christopher Isherwood. When it first appeared in 1945, Prater Violet caused a fury of critical speculation and acclaim. Edmund Wilson called it "a deliberate historical parable," and Diana Trilling's Nation review said, "Prater Violet is the most charming novel I have read in a long time... It is a book written in the author's own person, yet utterly without ego; it is a novel about movie writers which is yet a novel about the life of every serious artist; it is a book without a political moral, but a profound moral-political statement; it is gay, witty, sophisticated, but wholly responsible.
Author | : Christopher Isherwood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1946 |
Genre | : Jewish families |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Christopher Isherwood |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 141 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374520534 |
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Originally published in 1945, 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 ironic counterpoint to tragic events as Hitler annexes the real Vienna of the 1930s. The novel features the vivid portraits of imperious, passionate, and witty Austrian director Friedrich Bergmann and his disciple, a genial young screenwriter -- the fictionalized Christopher Isherwood.
Author | : Christopher Isherwood |
Publisher | : London, Methuen [1946] |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 1946 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Christopher Isherwood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : |
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This book Violet concerns the filming of an unashamedly romantic and commercial musical about old Vienna. It is a stinging satirical novel about the film industry, trifling studio feuds, and the fatuous movie Prater Violet, which, ironically, counterpoints the tragic events on the world stage as Hitler's lengthening shadow falls over the real Vienna of the thirties. At its center are vivid portraits of the mocking genius Friedrich Bergmann, the imperious, dazzlingly witty Austrian director, and his disciple, a genial young screenwriter-the fictionalized Christopher Isherwood.
Author | : Jan Vermeulen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Christopher Isherwood |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 121 |
Release | : 2016-01-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0811222616 |
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A timeless story of decaying middle-class English life after wwI and the generation that tried to escape its values 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 and children with all their passionate moral struggles. Isherwood’s vivid portrayal of an older generation trying to hold on while a younger generation tries to wrench free still resonates and disarms.
Author | : Christopher Isherwood |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Autobiographical fiction |
ISBN | : 0099561085 |
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Interweaving semi-autobiography with fiction, and taking the reader through relationships with 4 very different men, from 1930s Germany and prewar Greece to decadent Hollywood, Isherwood provides a black and witty portrait of the writer abroad.
Author | : Christopher Isherwood |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2013-11-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1466853344 |
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Welcome to sunny suburban 1960s Southern California. George is a gay middle-aged English professor, adjusting to solitude after the tragic death of his young partner. He is determined to persist in the routines of his former life. A Single Man follows him over the course of an ordinary twenty-four hours. Behind his British reserve, tides of grief, rage, and loneliness surge—but what is revealed is a man who loves being alive despite all the everyday injustices. When Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man first appeared, it shocked many with its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in maturity. Isherwood's favorite of his own novels, it now stands as a classic lyric meditation on life as an outsider.
Author | : Laura Marcus |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 912 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521820776 |
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