Adeus a Berlim evoca a capital alemã dos anos 1930 e o glamour, a sordidez e o excesso de uma sociedade em efervescência, debaixo da ameaça nazi: o desemprego em massa, as orgias, as tensões rácicas, os cadáveres esfaqueados, o snobismo, a falsa respeitabilidade da burguesia. Nos bares, nos apartamentos baratos, nas …
A Single Man is a 1964 novel by Christopher Isherwood. Set in Southern California during 1962, it depicts one day in the life of George, a middle-aged Englishman who is a professor at a Los Angeles university. The university might reflect CSULA, where Christopher Isherwood taught for some time. In 2009, fashion …
Christopher and His Kind is a memoir by Christopher Isherwood, published in 1976 and covering the actual events and experiences of his life between 1929 and 1939, including his years in Berlin, the source of inspiration for some of his most famous novels, such as Goodbye to Berlin. Isherwood decided late in his life …