Goodbye to Berlin

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Allen, Brooke (19 December 2004). "Isherwood: The Uses of Narcissism". The New York Times. New York City . Retrieved 11 February 2022. The real Isherwood, though not without many sympathetic qualities, was petty, selfish and supremely egotistical. The least political of the so-called Auden group, Isherwood was always guided by his personal motivations rather than by abstract ideas. W. H. Auden W. H. Auden in a letter to Patience McElwee 31 December 1928 (British Library Add 59618). Christopher’s thoughts and reactions are not recorded, we are left to imagine them and it is a complex imagining because theirs was a complex and strange relationship. Berlin diary (winter 1932-3) Isherwood 1976, p.297: "Heinz [Neddermeyer] might easily have been sentenced to an indefinite term in a concentration camp, as many homosexuals were...Like the Jews, homosexuals were often put into 'liquidation' units, in which they were given less food and more work than other prisoners. Thus, thousands of them died."

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Isherwood 1976, p.63: "On at least one occasion, because of some financial or housing emergency, they [Isherwood and Ross] shared a bed without the least embarrassment. Jean knew Otto and Christopher's other sex mates but showed no desire to share them, although he wouldn't have really minded". Firchow, Peter Edgerly (2008). Strange Meetings: Anglo-German Literary Encounters from 1910 to 1960. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press. ISBN 978-0-8132-1533-4– via Google Books. York (who reveals he was cast because the producers were looking for a "Michael York type", meaning slightly quaint and shyly British) says people even questioned why he would want the role, which turned him into one of the biggest stars of the 1970s, underscoring how taboo it was for a mainstream US film to feature any suggestion of gay themes and culture. "All these people were saying I was so brave and that I was taking a terrible risk by playing the role, but I never thought that at all. My job is to represent humanity and [being gay] is a big part of humanity." Thomson, David (21 March 2005). "The Observer as Hero". The New Republic. New York City . Retrieved 11 February 2022. a b Moss 1979: Although Moss was a critic for The New Yorker, this piece was published in The New York Times.Spender, Stephen (30 October 1977). "Life Wasn't a Cabaret". The New York Times. New York City. p.198 . Retrieved 4 March 2021. Izzo 2005, p.144: "The abortion is a turning point in the narrator's relationship with Sally and also in his relationship to Berlin and to his writing".

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According to literary critics, the character of Sally Bowles inspired Truman Capote's Holly Golightly in his novella Breakfast at Tiffany's. [12] [60] Critics have alleged that both scenes and dialogue in Capote's 1958 novella have direct equivalencies in Isherwood's earlier 1937 work. [60] Capote had befriended Isherwood in New York in the late 1940s, and Capote was an admirer of Isherwood's novels. [61] Gallery [ edit ] Isherwood 1976, p.63: "Jean never tried to seduce him [Isherwood]. But I remember a rainy, depressing afternoon when she remarked, 'What a pity we can't make love, there's nothing else to do,' and he agreed that it was and there wasn't". Jean Ross, a cabaret singer in the Weimar Republic, served as the primary basis for Isherwood's character. [16]

In fact the really queer thing about Mr Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin is how very, very unqueer they are. Eventually we’re all queer,’ drawled Fritz solemnly, in lugubrious tones. The young man looked us over slowly. He had been running and was still out of breath. The others grouped themselves awkwardly behind him, ready for anything – though their callow, open-mouthed faces in the greenish lamp-light looked a bit scared.

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Isherwood's friends, especially the poet Stephen Spender, often lamented how the cinematic and stage adaptations of Goodbye to Berlin glossed over Weimar-era Berlin's crushing poverty: "There is not a single meal, or club, in the movie Cabaret, that Christopher and I could have afforded [in 1931]." [88] Spender, Isherwood, W.H. Auden and others asserted that both the 1972 film and 1966 Broadway musical deleteriously glamorised the harsh realities of the 1930s Weimar era. [88] [89] Influence [ edit ]

Two weeks after the Enabling Act cemented Adolf Hitler's power, Isherwood fled Germany and returned to England on 5 April 1933. [41] Afterwards, most of Berlin's seedy cabarets were shuttered by the Nazis, [a] and many of Isherwood's cabaret friends later fled abroad or perished in concentration camps. [6] These factual events served as the genesis for Isherwood's Berlin tales. In other words, the famous ‘I am a camera’ lines can be read, not as a manifesto, but as an excuse. Goodbye To Berlin immediately signals its differences from Mr Norris Changes Trains. The main one is that the first-person narrator is not named William Bradshaw but Christopher Isherwood. Partly this is because the ‘novel’ seems much closer to being an actual diary. It gives rise to his landlady, Fraulein Schroeder’s, famous mispronunciation of his name, Herr Issyvoo.

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Now, about a hundred years since those days, and as the father of a teenage daughter the same age as Sally, I can see her behaviour as nerves and self-consciousness and an endless fishing for compliments and reassurance. I see her as pathetic and in need of help. After Ross' death, her daughter Sarah Caudwell criticized Isherwood's memories of Ross' sexual exhibitionism in Max Reinhardt's The Tales of Hoffmann production. She dismissed his claims as puerile fantasy. [10] However, acquaintance Gerald Hamilton claimed Ross was known for her sexual exhibitionism, including entertaining guests in the nude. [21]Parker 2005, p.614: "It was probably during the Berlin trip that Isherwood learned that the Nazis eventually caught up with his other companion on his 1933 journey to Greece, Erwin Hansen, who had died in a concentration camp." Norton, Ingrid (1 July 2010). "Year with Short Novels: Breakfast at Sally Bowles". Open Letters Monthly. Archived from the original on 7 April 2018 . Retrieved 2 July 2018.