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...
評分已成為我十佳書之一。不看絕對會後悔。第一遍我看到的是詼諧,對男主照相視角的周圍人的記錄十分好奇,急切想知道發生瞭什麼。Natalie的“I'm sorry I can't help you"每次讀到都要笑。 期待第二遍。
评分Love how he describes these fascinating characters in the book.esp. the mysterious jew. and the way he involves himself with all the people and the surrounding is just too good to be true
评分不同類彆的人物如何用自己的方式對抗全社會不可察覺不可對抗的崩塌,以營造紀實感為主的語言亮點不多。在人類即將被曆史車輪碾壓的前一秒的年代,看著他們為一己微不足道又大過天的痛苦絞盡腦汁,真不知作什麼滋味。
评分a society in decay... 因為無法阻止衰落的腳步,在茫然帶來的恐懼中喘著最後的幾口氣,這個過程之漫長讓人學會瞭習慣一切,就像Frl. Schroeder一樣蜷縮在小公寓裏也不得不做起瞭傢務
评分Sally Bowles寫得是真心好。
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