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I, ME, MINE.
Herr Issyvoo. The name sounds like a kiss followed by a sigh. At least, that's the way it's pronounced--with reverence, with love--in the gay quarters of Berlin, where the English writer Christopher Isherwood (1904-86), who lived there, off and on, between 1929 and 1933, became a figure in the demimonde. Of course, those five years continue to color the emotional climate of a city where one can still see the traces of the disaster that followed--the bullet marks and shrapnel lodged in the sides of gray marble office buildings--and where the most discussed cultural event of the season is "Der Untergang" ("The Downfall"), a film detailing Hitler's last days in the bunker. ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Paul Piazza February 14, 1988 700+ words
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD A Personal Memoir By John Lehmann Henry Holt. 150 pp. $16.95 CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD: A Personal Memoir is a photo...John Lehmann the camera recording Christopher Isherwood, the original camera. Lehmann...
- Time Regained.(Christopher Isherwood memoir)(Review)
- Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide GANNETT, LEWIS May 1, 2001 700+ words
...A Memoir, 1945-1951 by Christopher Isherwood HarperCollins. 388 pages...telegraphically that this period of Christopher Isherwood's life emerges more as a...scenes and lucid musings of Isherwood's Diaries, Volume One...
- The Isherwood Century: Essays on the Life and Work of Christopher...
- Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) Plunket, Robert September 12, 2000 700+ words
...Essays on the Life and Work of Christopher Isherwood Edited with an introduction by James...memoir, everything's coming up Isherwood Perhaps the most telling anecdote about Christopher Isherwood's long and crowded life occurred...
- Books: Of monks and men Charles Osborne finds a mix of mysticism and malice in...
- Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London CHARLES OSBORNE November 3, 1996 700+ words
Christopher Isherwood: Diaries. Volume One: 1939...volumes begins in January 1939 when Christopher Isherwood and W. H. Auden left England to...remaining on the East Coast while Isherwood made his way to California, where...
- Author Christopher Isherwood; writings inspired film `Cabaret'
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times January 6, 1986 700+ words
SANTA MONICA, Calif. Christopher Isherwood, whose tales of pre-World War...has died of cancer at 81. Mr. Isherwood, who was working on an untitled...Somerset Maugham once said of Mr. Isherwood. Virginia Woolf called him...
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- Picture from: Archive Photos January 1, 1940 700+ words
Archive Photos 01-01-1940 Christopher Isherwood Christopher Isherwood gained fame as a novelist for his accounts of the decadent, colorful life in Berlin during the early...
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- Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide Nixon, Timothy K. November 1, 2007 700+ words
IN MAY OF 1928, Christopher Isherwood made his first trip to Germany...out of the 1930's. To many, Isherwood is known primarily as the author...the musical and film Cabaret. For Isherwood himself, however, the trip to...
- Everywhere man: sexually, spiritually, and politically, Christopher Isherwood...
- Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) Ehrenstein, David December 21, 2004 700+ words
...perfect man for the job: With Isherwood, if you've got the boyfriends...years ago this past August, Christopher Isherwood made his fame with his tales...Cabaret were just one small part of Isherwood's journey. The pre-Berlin...