Christopher Isherwood

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,...

Corre el año 1933, Hitler ha sido nombrado canciller de Alemania y la situación en Austria es cada vez más inestable. Sin embargo, Chatsworth, productor de cine británico, se dispone a realizar un drama romántico basado en una obra musical vienesa. Está convencido de que la película, titulada "La violeta del Prater", será un éxito comercial si la dirige Friedrich Bergmann-un judío austríaco tan genial como impredecible que ha dejado a su...

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...

En 1931, a bordo de un tren con destino a Berlín, William Bradshaw conoce a Arthur Norris, un británico de aspecto cómico e intrigante con el cual entabla una amistad que le llevará a descubrir su ambigua personalidad. El señor Norris dirige un turbio negocio de importación y exportación en Berlín; vive atemorizado por sus acreedores y su secretario Schmidt y sometido a su amante, la prostituta Anni; y se define, según la ocasión, como militante...

George -Falconer en la versión cinematográfica de Tom Ford-, un profesor inglés de mediana edad, lucha por sobreponerse a la repentina muerte de su pareja, Jim, en un accidente de coche. Corre el año 1962, y pese a la vida privilegiada que lleva en Los Ángeles, su rutina se ha convertido en un doloroso recordatorio de lo único que le permitía soportar el opresivo "sueño americano": la intimidad amorosa en la que podía comportarse espontáneamente...

The love story between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy-in their own words The English novelist and screenwriter Christopher Isherwood was already famous as the author of Goodbye to Berlin when he met Don Bachardy, a California teenager, on the beach in Santa Monica in 1952. Within a year, they began to live together as an openly gay couple, defying convention in the closeted world of Hollywood. Isherwood was forty-eight; Bachardy was eighteen....

Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable ten years in the writer's life from 1929, when Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitely, to 1939, when he arrived in America. When the book was published in 1976, readers were deeply impressed by the courageous candor with which he describes his life in gay Berlin of the 1930s and his struggles to save his companion, Heinz, from the Nazis. An engrossing...

Isherwood's final work of fiction-an epistolary novel that explores sexual identity and Eastern mysticism After a long separation, two English brothers meet in India. Oliver, the idealistic younger brother, prepares to take his final vows as a Hindu monk. Patrick, a successful publisher with a wife and children in London and a male lover in California, has publicly admired his brother's convictions while privately criticizing his choices. First...

Best known for The Berlin Stories-the inspiration for the Tony and Academy Award-winning musical Cabaret-Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) was a major figure in twentieth-century fiction and the gay rights movement. Where Joy Resides is the perfect introduction to the author's essential writings. This collection presents two complete novels, Prater Violet and A Single Man; episodes from three other novels, Goodbye to Berlin, Down There on a Visit,...