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Article: Books: Of monks and men Charles Osborne finds a mix of mysticism and malice in Christopher Isherwood's diaries
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
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- November 3, 1996
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Christopher Isherwood: Diaries. Volume One:
1939-1960
ed by Katherine Bucknell
Methuen, pounds 25
THE AUTHOR of Mr Norris Changes Trains, and those other stories
of Berlin at the time of Hitler's rise to power, kept a diary
almost continuously for about 60 years, from the time he was a
student at Cambridge in the early 1920s until three years before
his death in 1986.
Most of his pre-1939 diaries, having been plundered for the
largely autobiographical Berlin stories, failed to survive in their
original form, and this first of a projected two volumes begins in
January 1939 when Christopher Isherwood and W. H. Auden left
England to take up residence in the United States. But they soon ...