Christopher Isherwood
Isherwood was the most vivid chronicler of Weimar Berlin, whose autobiographical novels created the figure of the detached observer-narrator that defined a generation of English travel writing. Goodbye to Berlin gave the world Sally Bowles.
Works
- Mr Norris Changes TrainsNovel of a con man's ascent through Berlin during the rise of Nazism in Weimar Germany
- Goodbye to BerlinBerlin stories chronicling bohemian life and impending darkness at the end of Weimar era
- The MemorialNovel exploring the aftermath of World War One through intertwined family and romantic histories
- Lions and ShadowsAutobiography of Isherwood's formative years and friendships at Cambridge and in literary circles
- Prater VioletNovella about a screenwriter and director collaborating on a film in 1930s Vienna and Hollywood
- Mr. Norris Changes TrainsNovel of a con man's ascent through Berlin during the rise of Nazism in Weimar Germany
- Christopher and His KindAutobiography exploring Isherwood's relationship with poet W.H. Auden and his coming of age as gay man
- A Single ManNovel of an aging American professor living in Los Angeles confronting mortality and loneliness