| Auden and Isherwood: The Berlin Years 1998 Edition Contributor(s): Page, Norman (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312211732 ISBN-13: 9780312211738 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1998 Annotation: As the Weimar Republic sputtered to a close and war loomed on the horizon, Berlin in the early thirties was a magnet for talented writers and artists. It was in this now-vanished time and place that W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood lived, wrote and slept together. Norman Page tells the story of how these years shaped these important writers and, in doing so, illuminates a bygone era. Photos. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Biography & Autobiography | Historical |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 97035010 |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 5.7" W x 8.84" (0.91 lbs) 220 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Cultural Region - Germany - Sex & Gender - Gay |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Drawing on much contemporary material, including Auden's fascinating unpublished diary, this book places personal experience in the context of the life of a great city: not only its political, artistic and cultural life, but the life of the streets, bars and caf� It presents portraits of figures, often fascinating in their own right, with whom Auden and Isherwood came into contact, and it demonstrates how, especially in Isherwood's fiction, the raw material of daily existence was transformed into art. The wide scope of this study, which ranges from poetry and cinema to street violence and prostitution, provides a richly detailed context for its account of two writers engaged in the process of self-definition. |