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Ebook About An indispensable memoir by one of the most prominent writers of his generationOriginally published in 1976, Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable ten years in the writer's life—from 1928, when Christopher Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitely, to 1939, when he arrived in America. His friends and colleagues during this time included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and E. M. Forster, as well as colorful figures he met in Germany and later fictionalized in his two Berlin novels—and who appeared again, fictionalized to an even greater degree, in I Am a Camera and Cabaret.What most impressed the first readers of this memoir, however, was the candor with which he describes his life in gay Berlin of the 1930s and his struggles to save his companion, a German man named Heinz, from the Nazis. An engrossing and dramatic story and a fascinating glimpse into a little-known world, Christopher and His Kind remains one of Isherwood's greatest achievements.Book Christopher and His Kind: A Biography (FSG Classics) Review :
My interest in this book was aroused after viewing a 2011 BBC production bearing the same title. Of course, reading the book version of a work is always more satisfying, though I do believe good films can spark interest in doing further research. The text is an appealing one for several reasons.An older Christopher Isherwood (seventy-two) writes about these ten years in the third person, as if this “Christopher Isherwood” is one of his fictional characters. At the same time, any passage in which he’s unsure about a fact or date or is definitely speaking retrospectively he employs the first person. I suppose the practice helps Isherwood to separate himself from the past, from the time when he may have acted as a callow yet, at times, callous fellow.“Christopher’s first visit to Berlin [1928] was short—a week or ten days—but that was sufficient; I now recognize it was one of the decisive events of my life. I can still make myself faintly feel the delicious nausea of initiation terror which Christopher felt as Wystan [W. H. Auden] pushed back the heavy leather door curtain of a boy bar called the Cosy Corner and led the way inside” (3). This is the callow part. It is indeed a lovely way of using the third person: “Christopher” is Isherwood’s manifestation as a young man. He will never again be quite like he is in 1928, age twenty-four, away from his home in England for the very first time, frozen in history, just like a fictional character.But Isherwood makes some startling admissions, one in particular concerning his feelings toward Heinz, a young man with whom he shares a life for five years, mostly in Berlin. When it comes time to help Heinz escape Nazi Germany (and conscription), many complications arise—including lengthy and expensive legal battles—that ultimately disallow it. They must part ways. Even though Isherwood draws on his diary for this passage, it is nonetheless very telling: “Heinz is always the last person I think of at night, the first in the morning. Never to forget Heinz. Never to cease to be grateful to him for every moment of our five years together. I suppose it isn't so much Heinz himself I miss as that part of myself which only existed in his company. I had better face it. I shall never see him again. And perhaps this is the best for us both. What should I feel, now, if, by some miracle, Heinz was let out of Germany? Great joy, of course. But also (I must be absolutely frank) I should be a little bit doubtful; for what, really, have I to offer him? Not even a proper home or a place in any kind of social scheme” (289).Why this interest in a largely British writer (even though he became an American citizen and spent more than half of his life in Los Angeles), who was born over a hundred years ago, and, except for garnering high praise from other fine writers, has not gained due recognition for his literary contributions? Perhaps this passage from the late Virginia Woolf’s diary sums up my response to his work:“Isherwood and I met on the doorstep. He is a slip of a wild boy: with quicksilver eyes: nipped; jockeylike. That young man, said W. Maugham, ‘holds the future of the English novel in his hands’” (325). Indeed. Much to my surprise this was a reading which made me sad at the ending: I wanted more. Through the eyes and typewriter of one man, this book was a peek into a life that seems horrific compared to today's culture. The striking fact is that such an era could return. In some ways the reading was a meditation on the meaning of human experience under certain conditions, as well as a reminder that history unfolds in cycles, not straight lines. (NO pun intended.) While one could simply view CABARET, this is a far more personal experience, maybe akin to an older friend telling a tale in front of a cozy fire while a blizzard rages out-of-doors. This was, for me, a better-than-good read, a necessary read for all LGBTQ+ younger folks in search of history. THOMAS PATRICK HULL, Chicago Read Online Christopher and His Kind: A Biography (FSG Classics) Download Christopher and His Kind: A Biography (FSG Classics) Christopher and His Kind: A Biography (FSG Classics) PDF Christopher and His Kind: A Biography (FSG Classics) Mobi Free Reading Christopher and His Kind: A Biography (FSG Classics) Download Free Pdf Christopher and His Kind: A Biography (FSG Classics) PDF Online Christopher and His Kind: A Biography (FSG Classics) Mobi Online Christopher and His Kind: A Biography (FSG Classics) Reading Online Christopher and His Kind: A Biography (FSG Classics) Read Online Christopher Isherwood Download Christopher Isherwood Christopher Isherwood PDF Christopher Isherwood Mobi Free Reading Christopher Isherwood Download Free Pdf Christopher Isherwood PDF Online Christopher Isherwood Mobi Online Christopher Isherwood Reading Online Christopher IsherwoodRead Online Lying By Sam Harris,Annaka Harris
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