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Jewish family owns a department store. After the Nazis smash the windows of several Jewish shops, he learns that Natalie's cousin Bernhard is dead, likely murdered by the Nazis. Ultimately, the narrator is forced to leave Germany as the Nazis continue their ascent to power, and he fears that many of his beloved Berlin acquaintances are now dead.
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and meet "Margot" under the guise of a Dutchman. Bradshaw is urgently recalled by Ludwig Bayer one of the leaders of the communist groups, who explains that Norris was spying for the French and both his group and the police know about it. Bradshaw observes they are being followed by the police and persuades Norris to leave Germany. After the
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on 30 January 1933, Isherwood finally noticed the sinister developments occurring within the country, and he commented to a friend: "Adolf, with his rectangular black moustache, has come to stay and brought all his friends.... Nazis are to be enrolled as 'auxiliary police,' which means that one must
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When Sally becomes pregnant after a brief fling, the narrator facilitates an abortion, and the painful incident draws them closer together. When he visits Sally at the hospital, the hospital staff assume he is Sally's impregnator and despise him for forcing her to have an abortion. Later during the
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secured Isherwood's reputation, the author denounced his writings after the collection's publication. In a 1956 essay, Isherwood lamented that he misunderstood the suffering of the people which he depicted. He regretted depicting many persons as "monsters" and noted they were "ordinary human beings
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Isherwood stated that 1930s Berlin had been "a real city in which human beings were suffering the miseries of political violence and near-starvation. The 'wickedness' of Berlin's night-life was of the most pitiful kind; the kisses and embraces, as always, had price-tags attached to them.... As for
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Norris subsequently returns with his fortunes restored and apparently conducting communication with an unknown Frenchwoman called Margot. Schmidt reappears and tries to blackmail Norris. Norris uses Bradshaw as a decoy to get an aristocratic friend, Baron Pregnitz, to take a holiday in Switzerland
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to Germany, British expatriate William Bradshaw meets a nervous-looking man named Arthur Norris. As they approach the frontier, Bradshaw strikes up a conversation with Norris, who wears an ill-fitting wig and carries a forged passport. After crossing the frontier, Norris invites Bradshaw to dinner
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In another moment, when I had drunk exactly the right amount of champagne, I should have a vision. I took a sip. And now, with extreme clarity, without passion or malice, I saw what Life really is. It had something, I remember, to do with the revolving sunshade. Yes, I murmured to myself, let them
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After relocating to Berlin in order to work on his novel, an English writer explores the decadent nightlife of the city and becomes enmeshed in the colorful lives of a diverse array of Berlin denizens. He acquires lodgings in a boarding house owned by Fräulein Schroeder, a caring landlady. At the
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with Peter and Otto, a gay couple who are struggling with their sexual identities. Jealous of Otto's endless flirtations with other men, Peter departs for England, and the narrator returns to Berlin to live with Otto's family, the Nowaks. During this time, he meets teenage Natalie Landauer whose
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Jean was more essentially British than Sally ; she grumbled like a true Englishwoman, with her 'grin-and-bear-it' grin. And she was tougher. She never struck Christopher as being sentimental or the least bit sorry for herself. Like Sally, she boasted continually about her lovers. In those days,
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and second-rate cabarets. Isherwood visited these nightclubs to hear Ross sing, and he later described her voice as poor yet effective: "She had a surprisingly deep, husky voice. She sang badly, without any expression, her hands hanging down at her sides—yet her performance was, in its own way,
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Although his stories about the nightlife of Weimar Berlin became commercially successful and secured his reputation as an author, Isherwood later denounced his writings. In a 1956 essay, Isherwood lamented that he had not understood the suffering of the people which he depicted.
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the 'monsters', they were quite ordinary human beings prosaically engaged in getting their living through illegal methods. The only genuine monster was the young foreigner who passed gaily through these scenes of desolation, misinterpreting them to suit his childish fantasy."
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recalled that Ross' singing ability was quite underwhelming: "In my mind's eye, I can see her now in some dingy bar standing on a platform and singing so inaudibly that I could not hear her from the back of the room where I was discreetly seated."
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The real Isherwood, though not without many sympathetic qualities, was petty, selfish and supremely egotistical. The least political of the so-called Auden group, Isherwood was always guided by his personal motivations rather than by abstract
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Following Isherwood's departure from Germany and the enstatement of the Hitler's brutalitarian regime, most of Berlin's seedy cabarets were shuttered by the Nazis, and many of Isherwood's cabaret friends would later flee abroad or perish in
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I thought of Natalia: she has escaped — none too soon, perhaps. However often the decision may be delayed, all these people are ultimately doomed. This evening is the dress-rehearsal of a disaster. It is like the last night of an epoch.
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prosaically engaged in getting their living through illegal methods. The only genuine monster was the young foreigner who passed gaily through these scenes of desolation, misinterpreting them to suit his childish fantasy." In 2010,
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Isherwood claimed that he and Ross "had a relationship which was asexual but more truly intimate than the relationships between Sally and her various partners in the novel, the plays and the films."
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later claimed the political indifference of the Sally Bowles character more closely resembled Isherwood and his hedonistic friends, many of whom "fluttered around town exclaiming how sexy the
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notes that Ross "claimed that Isherwood 'grossly underrated' her singing abilities, but her family agreed that this was one aspect of Sally Bowles that Isherwood got absolutely right".
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facilitated by Isherwood. Ross nearly died as a result of the botched abortion. While Ross recovered from the abortion procedure, the political situation
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had been a misfortune for her; she had been fixed by the book, turned into a fictional character whose story ended in 1939.' She has an affair in
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boarding house, he interacts the other tenants including the frank prostitute Fräulein Kost who has a Japanese patron and the divinely decadent
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As Berlin's daily scenes featured "poverty, unemployment, political demonstrations and street fighting between the forces of the
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effective because of her startling appearance and her air of not caring a curse of what people thought of her." Likewise,
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in Germany. He had relocated to Berlin to pursue a hedonistic life as an openly gay man and to enjoy the city's orgiastic
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now not only be murdered but that it is illegal to offer any resistance." Two weeks after Hitler passed the
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as a carnival of debauchery and despair inhabited by desperate people who are unaware of the
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which cemented his power, Isherwood fled Germany and returned to England on 5 April 1933.
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Due to his limited finances, Isherwood shared modest lodgings in Berlin with 19-year-old
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chose the collection as one of the 100 Best English-language works of the 20th century.
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Christopher Isherwood: His Era, His Gang, and the Legacy of the Truly Strong Man
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I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.
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Strange Meetings: Anglo-German Literary Encounters from 1910 to 1960
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While rooming together with Isherwood at Nollendorfstrasse 17 in
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This side of Jean Ross' life is mentioned in John Sommerfield's
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World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender
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are derived from Isherwood's colorful escapades in the
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Christopher felt certain that she was exaggerating...
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adapted Isherwood's work into the 1951 Broadway play
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The German Cabaret Legacy in American Popular Music
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Christopher Isherwood
Novels
New Directions
Hardback
Paperback
ISBN
0-8112-1804-X
OCLC
2709284
omnibus
Christopher Isherwood
novels
Mr Norris Changes Trains
Goodbye to Berlin
Jazz Age
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
ascent to power
interwar period
national catastrophe
Arthur Norris
Gerald Hamilton
Weimar Republic
Sally Bowles
Jean Ross
John Van Druten
I Am a Camera
I Am a Camera
stage musical

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