Isherwood S Fiction

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466853348

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A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood Pdf

Welcome to sunny suburban 1960s Southern California. George is a gay middle-aged English professor, adjusting to solitude after the tragic death of his young partner. He is determined to persist in the routines of his former life. A Single Man follows him over the course of an ordinary twenty-four hours. Behind his British reserve, tides of grief, rage, and loneliness surge—but what is revealed is a man who loves being alive despite all the everyday injustices. When Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man first appeared, it shocked many with its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in maturity. Isherwood's favorite of his own novels, it now stands as a classic lyric meditation on life as an outsider.

Author : Lisa M. Schwerdt,Linda Davis Taylor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349199860

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Isherwood's Fiction by Lisa M. Schwerdt,Linda Davis Taylor Pdf

An examination of the changing relationship between the writer and his protagonists, exploring how Isherwood's fiction achieves artistic integration and literary significance only when it reflects his personal concerns through theme and technique as he experiments with new narrative strategies.

Author : Peter Parker
Publisher : Picador USA
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Novelists, English
ISBN : 1509859403

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Isherwood by Peter Parker Pdf

Born into the English landed gentry, the heir to a substantial country estate, Christopher Isherwood ended up in California, an American citizen and the disciple of a Hindu swami. En route, he became a leading writer of the 1930's generation, an unmatched chronicler of pre-Hitler Berlin, an experimental dramatist, a war reporter, a travel writer, a pacifist, a Hollywood screenwriter, a monk, and a grand old man of the emerging gay liberation movement. In this biography, the first to be written since Isherwood's death, and the only one with access to all Isherwood's papers, Peter Parker traces the long journey of a man who never felt at home wherever he lived. Isherwood's travels were a means of escape: from his family, his class, his country, and the dead weight of the past. Parker reveals the truth about Isherwood's relationship with his war-hero father, his strong-willed mother, and his disturbed younger brother, Richard, who was also homosexual. He also draws upon a vast number of letters to describe Isherwood's complicated relationships with such lifelong friends as W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Edward Upward and John Lehmann. The result is a frank portrait of contradictions, a man searching for meaning in life, and one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : George R. Stewart
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1993-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780899683706

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Earth Abides by George R. Stewart Pdf

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : North Point Press
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Arrow
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Nineteen sixties
ISBN : 0099565226

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The Sixties, 1960-1969 by Christopher Isherwood Pdf

This second volume of Christopher Isherwood's remarkable diaries opens on his fifty-sixth birthday as the fifties give way to the decade of social and sexual revolution. Isherwood takes the reader from the bohemian sunshine of Southern California to a London finally swinging free of post-war gloom, to the racy cosmopolitanism of New York, and the raw Australian outback. The diaries are crammed with wicked gossip and probing psychological insights about the cultural icons of the time - Francis Bacon, Richard Burton, David Hockney, Mick Jagger, W. Somerset Maugham and many others. They are most revealing about Isherwood himself - his fiction, his film writing, his college teaching, and his affairs of the heart. In the background run references to the political and historical events of the period such as the anxieties of the Cold War, the moon landing and the Vietnam war. In The SixtiesIsherwood turns his fearless eye on the decade which more than any other has shaped the way we live now.

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019190987

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Diaries: 1939-1960 by Christopher Isherwood Pdf

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Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,5 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
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : 322 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780099561231

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My Guru and His Disciple by Christopher Isherwood Pdf

In 1939, as Europe approaches war, the author, 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. This title tells his story.

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Large type books
ISBN : OCLC:473194822

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Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood Pdf

Author : Christopher Bram
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480424562

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Gossip by Christopher Bram Pdf

DIVA gripping thriller about contemporary gay politics/divDIV Ralph Eckhart, an unassuming bookstore manager in the East Village, meets Bill O’Connor online and they agree to get together during Ralph’s weekend visit to Washington, DC. The two start a heated, long-distance sexual relationship. But Ralph discovers that Bill is a closeted Republican journalist, whose new book trashes liberal women in Washington—including Ralph’s speechwriter friend, Nancy—and angrily breaks off the affair. When Bill is found murdered, Ralph becomes the prime suspect. This is a complex psychological and political thriller full of the sexy excitement of “sleeping with the enemy.”/div

Author : Christopher Isherwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:247323285

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Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood Pdf