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Loading... Auden and Isherwood: The Berlin Yearsby Norman Page
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This is more than a simple biography as the title suggests. The Berlin years of this couple of twentieth centuries greats encompasses political and social history, literary criticism, and biography. The setting in Berlin in the late twenties provides a varied background for fascinating events and personal details. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Drawing on much contemporary material, including Auden's fascinating unpublished diary, this book places personal experience in the context of the life of a great city: not only its political, artistic and cultural life, but the life of the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. No library descriptions found. |
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