Isherwood On Writing

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781452968148

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Isherwood on Writing by Christopher Isherwood Pdf

Isherwood’s lectures on writing and writers, now all available for the first time In the 1960s, Christopher Isherwood gave an unprecedented series of lectures at California universities about his life and work. During this time Isherwood, who would liberate the memoir and become the founding father of modern gay writing, spoke openly for the first time about his craft—on writing for film, theater, and novels—and spirituality. Isherwood on Writing brings these free-flowing, wide-ranging public addresses together to reveal a distinctly American Isherwood at the top of his form. This updated edition contains the long-lost conclusion to the second lecture, published here for the first time, including its discussion of A Single Man, his greatest novel, and A Meeting by the River, his final novel.

Author : Christopher Isherwood,James J. Berg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0816646945

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Isherwood on Writing by Christopher Isherwood,James J. Berg Pdf

Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Random House
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781448137794

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The Art of Fiction by David Lodge Pdf

In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classic or modern novel, David Lodge makes the richness and variety of British and American fiction accessible to the general reader. He provides essential reading for students, aspiring writers and anyone who wants to understand how fiction works.

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466853331

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Down There on a Visit by Christopher Isherwood Pdf

Consisting of four accounts of encounters with four male characters, each of them visited by a different Christopher Isherwood, and each set in a different time and place—Berlin in the 1920s (overlapping the time period of the Berlin Stories), the Greek Isles in the early 1930s, London in the late 1930s and California in 1940—this acclaimed novel explores Isherwood's fundamental concerns with the choice of a way of life, and its implications for love, sex, spirituality and self-fulfillment. Published in 1959, when Isherwood had already become something of a literary rock star, Down There on a Visit is a very funny but also sad and deeply personal book that charts Isherwood's life of carnal indulgence and his first interlude with what would become a serious involvement with Eastern mysticism.

Author : Peter Parker
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 964 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0330328263

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Isherwood by Peter Parker Pdf

Christopher Isherwood was an unmatched chronicler of pre-Hitler Berlin, a war reporter, a travel writer, a pacifist, a Hollywood screenwriter, a monk and a grand old man of the emerging gay liberation movement. Peter Parker traces the long journey of a man who never felt at home wherever he lived.

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466853324

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The Memorial by Christopher Isherwood Pdf

With The Memorial, Christopher Isherwood began his lifelong work of rewriting his own experiences into witty yet almost forensic portraits of modern society. Set in the aftermath of World War I, The Memorial portrays the dissolution of a tradition-bound English family. Cambridge student Eric Vernon finds himself torn between his desire to emulate his heroic father, who led a life of quiet sacrifice before dying in the war, and his envy for his father's great friend Edward Blake, who survived the war only to throw himself into gay life in Berlin and the pursuit of meaningless relationships. Published in 1932, when Isherwood was twenty-eight years old, The Memorial is the immediate precursor to the first volume of the famous Berlin Stories, but it stand in its own right as the first book in which Isherwood really found his literary voice.

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Random House
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446419281

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A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood Pdf

Isherwood's short, poignant novel is a tender and wistful love story Celebrated as a masterpiece from its first publication, A Single Man is the story of George, an English professor in suburban California left heartbroken after the death of his lover, Jim. With devastating clarity and humour, Isherwood shows George's determination to carry on, evoking the unexpected pleasures of life as well as the soul's ability to triumph over loneliness and alienation. 'A virtuoso piece of work...courageous...powerful' Sunday Times 'This mix of humour and stoicism in the face of pent-up grief is essential Isherwood' Guardian

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : North Point Press
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466853287

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Prater Violet by Christopher Isherwood Pdf

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 : New Directions Publishing
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811222617

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All the Conspirators by Christopher Isherwood Pdf

A timeless story of decaying middle-class English life after wwI and the generation that tried to escape its values Christopher Isherwood was only twenty-one when he began his first novel, All the Conspirators. in his introduction to the American edition, Isherwood explains: “All the Conspirators records a minor engagement in what Shelley calls ‘the great war between the old and young.’ And what a war it was!” in many ways this novel (like the classic Berlin Stories) is a period piece growing out of a particular historical situation—clashes between parents and children with all their passionate moral struggles. Isherwood’s vivid portrayal of an older generation trying to hold on while a younger generation tries to wrench free still resonates and disarms.

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Large type books
ISBN : OCLC:473194822

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Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood Pdf

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374711061

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The World in the Evening by Christopher Isherwood Pdf

A deeply introspective book about war, religion, and sexuality Against the backdrop of World War II, The World in the Evening charts the emotional development of Stephen Monk, an aimless Englishman living in California. After his second marriage suddenly ends, Stephen finds himself living with a relative in a small Pennsylvania Quaker town, haunted by memories of his prewar affair with a younger man during a visit to the Canary Islands. The world traveler comes to a gradual understanding of himself and of his newly adopted homeland. When first published in 1953, The World in the Evening was notable for its clear-eyed depiction of European and American mores, sexuality, and religion. Today, readers herald Christopher Isherwood's frank portrayal of bisexuality and his early appreciation of low and high camp.

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Random House
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780099561071

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Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood Pdf

Writing at a distance of nearly 40 years from the earlier 'Christopher', Isherwood has succeeded in evoking a comically harassed figure in a tragic decade.

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Random House
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446476178

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My Guru and His Disciple by Christopher Isherwood Pdf

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOW In 1939, as Europe approaches war, Isherwood, an instinctive pacifist, travels west to California, seeking a new set of beliefs to replace the failed Leftism of the thirties. There he meets Swami Prabhavananda, a Hindu monk, who will become his spiritual guide for the next thirty-seven years. Late-night drinking sessions, free love, and the glamour of writing for the Hollywood studios alternate with meditation, abstinence and the study of religious texts in a compelling tug of war between worldliness and holiness.

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1105297368

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The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris [and] Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood Pdf

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374180973

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Kathleen and Frank by Christopher Isherwood Pdf

Kathleen and Frank is a love story set in the glory days of the British Empire, the last decades before World War I It is the story of Christopher Isherwood’s parents, the winsome and lively daughter of a successful wine merchant and the reticent, artistically gifted soldier-son of a country squire. They met in 1895 outside a music rehearsal in an army camp and married in 1903 after Christopher’s father returned from the Boer War. Frank was killed in an assault near Ypres in 1915; Kathleen remained a widow for the rest of her life. Their story is told through letters and Kathleen’s diary, with connecting commentary by Isherwood. Kathleen and Frank is a family memoir, but it is also a richly detailed social history of a period of striking change— Queen Victoria’s funeral, Blériot’s flight across the English Channel, Sarah Bernhardt’s Hamlet, suffragettes, rising hemlines, the beginning of the Troubles in Ireland—the period that shaped Isherwood himself. As a young man, Isherwood fled the tragedy that engulfed his parents’ lives and threatened his own; in Kathleen and Frank, he reweaves the tapestry of family and heritage and places himself in the pattern.