Auden and Isherwood

by Page, Norman

• ISBN13: 9780312211738
• ISBN10: 0312211732
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-10-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Like Paris in the '20s, Berlin in the early thirties was one of the most exciting cities in the world. As the Weimar Republic sputtered to a close and war loomed on the horizon, the city was a magnet for talented writers and artists. It was in this now-vanished time and place that W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood lived, wrote and slept together. Norman Page tells the story of how these years shaped these important writers and, in doing so, illuminates a bygone era.

Author Biography

Norman Page is Emeritus Professor of English at Nottingham University in England.

Table of Contents

List of Plates	ix
Acknowledgements	x
Prologue: Looking for Berlin	1	(5)
Two Young Englishmen	6	(55)
Berlin: Places	61	(39)
Berlin: Faces	100	(46)
The Other Camera-Aspects of Weimer Cinema	146	(27)
Writing about Berlin	173	(37)
Epilogue: Goodbye to Berlin	210	(3)
Bibliography	213	(4)
Index	217