Conversations with Christopher Isherwood (Literary Conversations)
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (931 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1578064082 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 201 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-04 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
M. Berg is the program director for the Center for Teaching and Learning, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities. These interviews are substantive, smart, and insightful, allowing the author to discuss his approach to writing of both fiction and nonfiction. The interviews in this volume--two of which have never before been published--stretch over a period of forty years. Auden, Aldous Huxley, and E. Throughout his career he was a keen observer, always seemingly in the right place at the right time. "I have spent half my life in the United States," he said. James J. As an interviewee, Isherwood is introspective, thoughtful, and humorous. Forster; several important places in his life--Berlin, England, and California; and his homosexual identity. an acceptable setting for serious fiction, paving the way for John Rechy, Joan Didion, Paul Monette, and Bernard Cooper, among others. H. Berg and Freeman are editors of The Isherwood Century: Essays on the Life and Work of Christopher Isherwood, which was a finalist for the 2001 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Studies.. "Los Angeles is a great place for feeling at home because everybody's from someplace else." Isherwood can be credited for helping make L.A. The author of Goodbye to Berlin (1939), the British Isherwood found fame through the adaptation of that work int
A Customer said The Best There Is!. Better than the literary crit stuff that has been published on Isherwood, and miles ahead of the various attempts at biography, these 'Conversations' give a portrait of the whole man. It really is the best there is on the life of Christopher Isherwood