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.
对伊舍伍德有所了解,是在读了他与奥登合著的那本《战地行记》之后。上世纪30年代,卢沟桥事变引发中国全面抗战,伊舍伍德携手好友奥登来到中国作了5个月的战地旅行,合作写下了《战地行纪》,真实地记录了中国人民遭遇的战争苦难与不屈的民族精神,充满人道主义的情怀。伊舍伍...
评分对伊舍伍德有所了解,是在读了他与奥登合著的那本《战地行记》之后。上世纪30年代,卢沟桥事变引发中国全面抗战,伊舍伍德携手好友奥登来到中国作了5个月的战地旅行,合作写下了《战地行纪》,真实地记录了中国人民遭遇的战争苦难与不屈的民族精神,充满人道主义的情怀。伊舍伍...
评分 评分 评分谁都想要一个像伊殊伍德这样的好基友吧。一起玩,互相写明信片,谈论读了什么书,更新和男朋友的状况等等。 《再见柏林》里英国女孩莎莉鲍尔斯的故事后来发展出音乐剧Cabaret。伊殊伍德的角色被写进三角恋剧情。《再见柏林》虽然没提奥登和Stephen Spender,不过伊殊伍德跑去...
"But no,it wasn't love either-it was worse.It was the cheapest,most childish kind of wounded vanity."
评分几乎是不带任何感情色彩,不带任何involvement感觉的描写30年代初的柏林,一个马上就要(再一次)成为历史漩涡核心的大城市普通人们的百态。就像作者自己说的,自己只不过是相机镜头,纯粹纪录而已。镜头一流,但是还有哪个城市能比柏林提供更好的素材呢
评分finally finished this reading assignment from the year 2012. "Reading this novel is much like overhearing anecdotes in a crowded bar while history knocks impatiently at the windows" - Guardian
评分读原版书没什么快感
评分A reminiscence of pre-war Berlin, with strikingly good people sketches and a hint of sadness running underneath.
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