Goodbye to Berlin

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Unlike the first story, Goodbye to Berlin moves through different characters and chapters. The chapters are divided episodically however, they all focus on the protagonist. Each chapter presents a different location or family but ultimately connects with the rest of the chapters. The stories are all set in the 1930s in Berlin, particularly in a show called The Troika and the nearby lodgings where actors and employees sleep. Isherwood describes his encounters with these characters who openly discuss how they are intimidated and oppressed by Hitler’s government. Update this section! Isherwood, Christopher (2012) [1935]. Goodbye to Berlin. New York City: New Directions. ISBN 978-0-8112-2024-8– via Google Books.

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Whitby; The Plowman Printing House, 1991. First edition. 22x14 cm. 24 pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Front wrapper is insignificantly soiled and there is a faint shadow from price-label on rear wrapper. A fine copy of the Scottish-Swedish author's first collection of poems composed in English.

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." Isherwood, Christopher (1976). Christopher and His Kind: A Memoir, 1929-1939. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0374-53522-3– via Google Books. Clive–a wealthy playboy based upon American expatriate John Blomshield who inspired the enigmatic character of Baron Maximilian von Heune in the 1972 film adaptation. [80] [81] According to contradictory sources, Blomshield sexually pursued both Isherwood and Ross for a short while in Berlin, and he invited them to accompany him on a trip abroad to the United States. When they had agreed to go, he then abruptly disappeared without saying goodbye. [82] [83] Blomshield bluntly terminated his relationships in the same manner that Clive ends his affair with Sally. [84]

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Isherwood 1976, p.150: "Erwin [Hansen] returned to Germany several years later. Someone told me that he was arrested by the Nazis and died in a concentration camp." 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.Moss 1979: Isherwood frequented "the boy-bars in Berlin in the late years of the Weimar Republic.... [He] discovered a world utterly different from the repressive English one he disliked, and with it, the excitements of sex and new subject matter." The Berlin Stories study guide contains a biography of Christopher Isherwood, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.