Prater Violet

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : North Point Press
ISBN 13 : 146685328X
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prater Violet written by Christopher Isherwood and published by North Point Press. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 : 9780413563101
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prater Violet written by Christopher Isherwood and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman om en jødisk emigrant og filminstruktør der arbejder med en intetsigende Wienerfilm, mens Hitler bemægtiger sig hans fædreland.

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prater Violet written by Christopher Isherwood and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374533806
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Down There on a Visit written by Christopher Isherwood and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bremen, 1928. The Greek Islands, 1932. London, 1938. California, 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators all named Christopher Isherwood. Here are the postcards home from a spiritual tourist looking for a new mode of life as well as a new place to live while Europe, and then the world, moves relentlessly toward war. Which of the guides he encounters can lead him to a better future? The businessman, the utopian, the guru, the geisha? Published in 1962, Down There on a Visit is based on material from a proposed epic that would also have incorporated The Berlin Stories. It is now widely regarded as the most accomplished of Isherwood's novels.

Author : Paul Piazza
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231513586
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christopher Isherwood written by Paul Piazza and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Isherwood

Author : David Garrett Izzo
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570034039
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christopher Isherwood written by David Garrett Izzo and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first thorough examination of Isherwood's work and life in twenty years, Izzo's analysis brings into play the Mortmere stories, by Isherwood and Edward Upward (dating from the 1920s but published only in 1994), and the Diaries, 1939-1960, published in 1996, to reposition Isherwood within a circle of British writers that included - besides Upward - W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and Cecil Day Lewis.

Author : Laura Marcus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521820776
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature written by Laura Marcus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466853344
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Single Man written by Christopher Isherwood and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jamie M. Carr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113552064X
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queer Times written by Jamie M. Carr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book maps Christopher Isherwood's intellectual and aesthetic reflections from the late 1930s through the late 1970s. Drawing on the queer theory of Eve Sedgwick and the ethical theory of Michel Foucault, Carr illuminates Isherwood's post-war development of a queer ethos through his focus on the aesthetic, social, and historical politics of the 1930s in his novels Prater Violet (1945), The World in the Evening (1954), and Down There on a Visit (1962), and in his memoir, Christopher and His Kind: 1929–1939 (1976).

Author : James J. Berg
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452963282
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Isherwood in Transit written by James J. Berg and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New perspectives on Christopher Isherwood as a searching and transnational writer “Perhaps I had traveled too much, left my heart in too many places,” muses the narrator of Christopher Isherwood’s novel Prater Violet (1945), which he wrote in his adopted home of Los Angeles after years of dislocation and desperation. In Isherwood in Transit, James J.Berg and Chris Freeman bring together diverse Isherwood scholars to understand the challenges this writer faced as a consequence of his travel. Based on a conference at the Huntington Library, where Isherwood’s recently opened papers are held, Isherwood in Transit considers the writer not as an English, continental, or American writer but as a transnational one, whose identity, politics, and beliefs were constantly transformed by global connections and engagements arising from journeys to Germany, Japan, China, and Argentina; his migration to the United States; and his conversion to Vedanta Hinduism in the 1940s. Approaching Isherwood’s rootlessness and restlessness from various perspectives, these essays show that long after he made a new home in California and became an American citizen, Christopher Isherwood remained unsettled, although his wanderings became spiritual and personal rather than geographic. Contributors: Barrie Jean Borich, DePaul U; Jamie Carr, Niagara U; Robert L. Caserio, Penn State U, University Park; Lisa Colletta, American U of Rome; Lois Cucullu, U of Minnesota; Jaime Harker, U of Mississippi; Carola M. Kaplan, California State U, Pomona; Calvin W. Keogh, Central European U, Budapest; Victor Marsh; Wendy Moffat, Dickinson College; Xenobe Purvis; Bidhan Roy, California State U, Los Angeles; Katharine Stevenson, U of Texas at Austin; Edmund White.