Goodbye to Berlin is a short novel by Christopher Isherwood. It is often published together with The Last of Mr. Norris in a collection called The Berlin Stories.
The novel, a semiautobiographical account of Isherwood's time in 1930s Berlin, describes pre-Nazi Germany and the people he met.
Moving to Germany to work on his novel, Isherwood soon becomes involved with many different German citizens: The caring landlady, Frau. Shroeder; the "divinely decadent" Sally Bowles, a young English woman who sings in the local Cabaret; Natalia Laundauer, the rich, Jewish heiress of a prosperous family business; Peter and Otto, a couple struggling to accept their relationship in light of the rise of the Nazis.
The book, first published in 1939, ironically highlights the groups of people who would be most at risk from Nazi intimidation.
Born Aug. 26, 1904, High Lane, Cheshire, Eng. — died Jan. 4, 1986, Santa Monica, Calif., U.S. British-born U.S. writer.
Educated at Cambridge University, he became close friends with W.H. Auden, with whom he traveled and collaborated on three verse dramas, including The Ascent of F6 (1936). He lived in Berlin from 1929 to 1933; his two novels about this period, later published together as The Berlin Stories (1946), inspired the play I Am a Camera (1951; film, 1955) and the musical Cabaret (1966; film, 1972). A pacifist, he moved to southern California at the beginning of World War II, where he taught and wrote screenplays. A follower of Swami Prabhavananda, he wrote and translated works on Indian Vedanta.
断断续续的用一个月看完这本书,幸好书的篇章不是太长和前后章节的逻辑性不是太强,不然像我每次重新看一个章节都会忘记主人公叫什么名字的人来说,绝对坚持不下来。不知道是不是人老了集中力衰退,以前看《百年孤独》,看一个月都不觉得累,现在看个两三页就情不自禁地翻后面...
评分 评分a society in decay... 因为无法阻止衰落的脚步,在茫然带来的恐惧中喘着最后的几口气,这个过程之漫长让人学会了习惯一切,就像Frl. Schroeder一样蜷缩在小公寓里也不得不做起了家务
评分words for saying goodbyes " No.Even now i can't althogether believe that any of this has really happened.....恍然如梦大概也就如此~~
评分a society in decay... 因为无法阻止衰落的脚步,在茫然带来的恐惧中喘着最后的几口气,这个过程之漫长让人学会了习惯一切,就像Frl. Schroeder一样蜷缩在小公寓里也不得不做起了家务
评分A reminiscence of pre-war Berlin, with strikingly good people sketches and a hint of sadness running underneath.
评分扔在波兰弗罗茨瓦夫火车站的那本书。。。
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