I bought my copy of these in Berlin in 1977. The stories have been
a play and a film, or at least Goodbye to Berlin has, but a reading
of the true works brings an even greater joy. They are quite
amazingly immediate, even though Mr Norris Changes Trains was
written first, in 1934, and Sally Bowles, as it was originally
called before it was filmed as Cabaret, was written later, in 1937.
Finally the complete Goodbye to Berlin was published in 1939. They
are still perfect, marvellously told, as glittering and startling
as the people who inhabit them as the people who inhabit them.
Review by the late Dirk Bogarde, actor and writer (Kirkus UK)
Christopher Isherwood gives fascinating insight into pre-war
Berlin. MR NORRIS CHANGES TRAINS The first of Christopher
Isherwood's classic 'Berlin' novels, this portrays the encounter
and growing friendship between young William Bradshaw and the
urbane and mildly sinister Mr Norris. Piquant, witty and oblique,
it vividly evokes the atmosphere of pre-war Berlin, and forcefully
conveys an ironic political parable. GOODBYE TO BERLIN The
inspiration for the film Cabaret and for the play I Am a Camera,
this novel remains one of the most powerful of the century, a
haunting evocation of the gathering storm of the Nazi terror. Told
in a series of wry, detached and impressionistic vignettes, it is
an unforgettable portrait of bohemian Berlin, a city and a world on
the very brink of ruin.
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