The Berlin stories
Author | : Christopher Isherwood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Autobiographical fiction |
ISBN | : 9780811200707 |
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Author | : Christopher Isherwood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Autobiographical fiction |
ISBN | : 9780811200707 |
Author | : Robert Walser |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2012-01-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1590174739 |
A New York Review Books Original In 1905 the young Swiss writer Robert Walser arrived in Berlin to join his older brother Karl, already an important stage-set designer, and immediately threw himself into the vibrant social and cultural life of the city. Berlin Stories collects his alternately celebratory, droll, and satirical observations on every aspect of the bustling German capital, from its theaters, cabarets, painters’ galleries, and literary salons, to the metropolitan street, markets, the Tiergarten, rapid-service restaurants, and the electric tram. Originally appearing in literary magazines as well as the feuilleton sections of newspapers, the early stories are characterized by a joyous urgency and the generosity of an unconventional guide. Later pieces take the form of more personal reflections on the writing process, memories, and character studies. All are full of counter-intuitive images and vignettes of startling clarity, showcasing a unique talent for whom no detail was trivial, at grips with a city diving headlong into modernity.
Author | : Christopher Isherwood |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780811218047 |
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.
Author | : Christopher Isherwood |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2008-09-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0811220281 |
A classic of 20th-century fiction, The Berlin Stories inspired the Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film Cabaret. First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two astonishing related novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin, which are recognized today as classics of modern fiction. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafés; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers; dangerous, with its vice and intrigue; powerful and seedy, with its mobs and millionaires—this is the period when Hitler was beginning his move to power. The Berlin Stories is inhabited by a wealth of characters: the unforgettable Sally Bowles, whose misadventures in the demimonde were popularized on the American stage and screen by Julie Harris in I Am A Camera and Liza Minnelli in Cabaret; Mr. Norris, the improbable old debauchee mysteriously caught between the Nazis and the Communists; plump Fräulein Schroeder, who thinks an operation to reduce the scale of her Büste might relieve her heart palpitations; and the distinguished and doomed Jewish family, the Landauers.
Author | : Dovid Bergelson |
Publisher | : City Lights Books |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2005-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780872864443 |
"The Shadows of Berlin is, in part, a bleak chronicle of life in a Europe growing ever more hostile at the edge of World War II. More than that, these stories offer glimpses into a community and a world now lost. They are also, in part, parables of modern life, drawing as much on the transformative possibility of scripture as they do on gritty depictions of the Berlin street. Bergelson's stories hint at the possibility of redemption even as they suggest a horror just around the corner."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Christopher Isherwood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1973 |
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Author | : Christopher Isherwood |
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Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 1935 |
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Author | : Christopher Isherwood |
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Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 1954 |
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Author | : Christopher Isherwood |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 2011-10-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1448113385 |
Christopher Isherwood gives fascinating insight into pre-war Berlin. MR NORRIS CHANGES TRAINS The 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 BERLIN The inspiration for the film Cabaret and for the play I Am a Camera, this novel remains one of the most powerful of the century, a haunting evocation of the gathering storm of the Nazi terror. Told in a series of wry, detached and impressionistic vignettes, it is an unforgettable portrait of bohemian Berlin, a city and a world on the very brink of ruin.
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Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1954 |
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