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Article: Hedonism bound: Isherwood in Berlin.(ESSAY)(Christopher Isherwood)(Essay)
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- The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
- Article date:
- November 1, 2007
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IN MAY OF 1928, Christopher Isherwood made his first trip to Germany. He went as a tourist on a brief visit to the port city of Bremen. Though unremarkable in many respects, this trip would prove to be amazingly generative. For the reading public, the visit was a catalyst that would eventually result in some of the most entertaining writing to come out of the 1930's. To many, Isherwood is known primarily as the author of The Berlin Stories, the source material for what became the musical and film Cabaret. For Isherwood himself, however, the trip to Germany opened his eyes to the possibility of a different way of life.
England had grown stifling to Isherwood: ...