![]() ![]() In a different book a character like Sally might appear as just another ‘Manic Pixie Dream Girl’ but when she is represented by a narrator who has no sexual interest in her, the horror and pathos of her situation become apparent. It charts the rise and fall of Christopher’s friendship with Sally, an upper-class English girl whose affected manners mask her desperation. The second story, ‘Sally Bowles’, is probably the most famous, providing most of the source material for the musical Cabaret. The first story ‘A Berlin Diary’ introduces us to the assorted outsiders and survivors who inhabit the seedy boarding house where the narrator, Christopher, resides at the beginning of his time in Berlin, and which is presided over by his eccentric landlady, Frl. But Isherwood is also a superb writer, the kind of writer who makes very finely crafted writing appear effortless. ![]() The book would be worth reading simply as a piece of social history documenting the lives of ordinary people during the last days of the Weimar Republic and the rise of the Nazi Party. 9)Ĭhristopher Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin comprises six interlinked stories based around the author’s experiences of living in Berlin during the early 1930s. ![]() “I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking”, (p. ![]()
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