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VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on.
'I'm the type which every man imagines he wants, until he gets me; and then he finds he doesn't really, after all'
Goodbye to Berlin is the novella that inspired Cabaret, evoking the glamour and sleaze, excess and repression of Berlin society. Isherwood shows the lives of people under threat from the rise of the Nazis: a wealthy Jewish heiress, Natalia Landauer, a gay couple, Peter and Otto, and an English upper-class waif, the divinely decadent Sally Bowles.
"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking," are the famous lines on the first page. This a semiautobiographical account of Isherwood's time in 1930s Berlin. First published in 1939, this is a brilliant evocation of the decadence and repression, glamour and sleaze of Berlin society. Isherwood shows the lives of people at threat from the rise of the Nazis: Natalia Laundauer, the rich, Jewish heiress, Peter and Otto, a gay couple and the "divinely decadent" Sally Bowles, a young English woman who was so memorably portrayed by Liza Minnelli in the film Cabaret. This novel is often collected with Mr Norris Changes Trains as The Berlin Novels.
Paperback Published 31 January 2023 256 Pages
Author: Christopher Isherwood