Goodbye to Berlin

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Spiro, Mia (2012). Anti-Nazi Modernism: The Challenges of Resistance in 1930s Fiction. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press. doi: 10.2307/j.ctv47w3sg. ISBN 978-0-8101-2863-7. JSTOR j.ctv47w3sg . Retrieved 4 March 2021– via Google Books.

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Zašto moraš uvijek gledati u istom smjeru kao ja?” Ovo zapažanje bilo je iznenađujuće tačno, jer kad god bi Oto okrenuo glavu da bi pogledao u neku djevojku, Piterove oči mehanički su slijedile njegov pogled instinktivnom ljubomorom. 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 dance. They are dancing, I am glad. Doyle, Rachel (12 April 2013). "Looking for Christopher Isherwood's Berlin". The New York Times. New York City. p.TR10 . Retrieved 11 February 2022. Isherwood 1976, p.63: "On at least one occasion, because of some financial or housing emergency, they [Isherwood and Ross] shared a bed without the least embarrassment. Jean knew Otto and Christopher's other sex mates but showed no desire to share them, although he wouldn't have really minded". The Nazis come to power, people are beaten up in the streets, publishers are closed down, Jews in all walks of life are arrested and dragged off. When Fritz takes Christopher to a ‘communist’ bar in a cellar, they all pretend to be confident of the future, assuring him this Nazi period in power is just a flash in the pan, but the reader knows they are doomed to lose and lose badly.

Paul Bowles was an American writer who wrote the novel The Sheltering Sky. [13] Isherwood appropriated his surname for the character of Sally Bowles. [14] [15]

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During this time, Christopher meets teenage Natalie Landauer whose wealthy Jewish family owns a department store. After the Nazis smash the windows of several Jewish shops, Christopher learns that Natalie's cousin Bernhard is dead, likely murdered by the Nazis. Ultimately, Christopher 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. Dziemianowicz, Joe (20 August 2014). "Emma Stone to join Broadway's 'Cabaret' in November, replacing Michelle Williams". New York Daily News. New York City: Tronc . Retrieved 14 June 2018. I’ve been making love to a dirty old Jew producer. I’m hoping he’ll give me a contract–but no go, so far….’ Clarke, Gerald (1988). Capote: A Biography. New York City: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-22811-0 . Retrieved 2 July 2022– via Google Books.Bowles 1985, p.110: In his autobiography Without Stopping, the author Paul Bowles surmised that Isherwood, whom he met in Berlin, borrowed his surname for the character Sally Bowles. Christopher makes the experiment of introducing fastidious and tightly-disciplined Natalia Landauer to Sally Bowles at a restaurant. It goes wrong immediately as Sally apologises for being late because

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Izzo, David Garrett (2001). Christopher Isherwood: His Era, His Gang, and the Legacy of the Truly Strong Man. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-57003-403-9. Mizejewski, Linda (1992). Divine Decadence: Fascism, Female Spectacle, and the Makings of Sally Bowles. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-07896-3– via Internet Archive. Stansky 1976: Isherwood was a "self-indulgent upper middle-class foreign tourist" who was "a good deal less dedicated to political passion than the legend has had it." Allen, Brooke (19 December 2004). "Isherwood: The Uses of Narcissism". The New York Times. New York City . Retrieved 11 February 2022. 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 ideas. Isherwood's friends, especially the poet Stephen Spender, often lamented how the cinematic and stage adaptations of Goodbye to Berlin glossed over Weimar-era Berlin's crushing poverty: "There is not a single meal, or club, in the movie Cabaret, that Christopher and I could have afforded [in 1931]." [88] Spender, Isherwood, W.H. Auden and others asserted that both the 1972 film and 1966 Broadway musical deleteriously glamorised the harsh realities of the 1930s Weimar era. [88] [89] Influence [ edit ]

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In reflecting on the history of queer migration to Weimar Berlin, with their dual realities of liberation and exploitation, we can begin to dissect and disturb the assumptions of modernity that frame sexual minority asylum today. This is to borrow from Isherwood’s own restless critique of modernity in his own time. For displaced sexual minority refugees, this is to both interrogate the political co-option of their suffering by narratives of liberal progress, but also to challenge the politics and histories that makes their persecution possible. Doyle, Rachel B. (12 April 2013). "Looking for Isherwood's Berlin". The New York Times. New York City. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 4 March 2021.

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Izzo 2005, p.144: "Isherwood himself admitted that he named the character of [Sally Bowles] for Paul Bowles, whose 'looks' he liked." Isherwood, Christopher (2012) [1935]. Goodbye to Berlin. New York City: New Directions. ISBN 978-0-8112-2024-8– via Google Books. Moss 1979: Isherwood frequented "the boy-bars in Berlin in the late years of the Weimar Republic.... [He] discovered a world utterly different from the repressive English one he disliked, and with it, the excitements of sex and new subject matter." She had a surprisingly deep, husky voice. She sang badly, [c] without any expression, her hands hanging down at her sides—yet her performance was, in its own way, effective because of her startling appearance and her air of not caring a curse of what people thought of her." [29]Although Isherwood's stories about the Jazz Age nightlife of Weimar-era Berlin became commercially successful, Isherwood later denounced his writings. [54] He lamented that he had not understood the suffering of the people which he depicted. [54] He stated that 1930s Berlin had been: Contemporary writer and literary critic George Orwell likewise praised the novel. [9] Although Orwell believed the work to be inferior to Isherwood's earlier novel, Mr Norris Changes Trains, he nonetheless believed that Goodbye to Berlin contained "brilliant sketches of a society in decay". [9] In particular, Orwell singled out for praise the chapter titled "The Nowaks" which concerns a working-class Berlin family on the verge of destitution and disaster. [9] "Reading such tales as this," Orwell observed, "the thing that surprises one is not that Hitler came to power, but that he did not do so several years earlier. The book ends with the triumph of the Nazis and Mr. Isherwood's departure from Berlin." [9] a b Moss 1979: Although Moss was a critic for The New Yorker, this piece was published in The New York Times. Bowles, Paul (1985) [1972]. Without Stopping: An Autobiography. New Jersey: Ecco Press. p.110. ISBN 0-88001-675-2 . Retrieved 4 March 2021– via Internet Archive.