Goodbye to Berlin

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Firchow, Peter Edgerly (2008). Strange Meetings: Anglo-German Literary Encounters from 1910 to 1960. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press. ISBN 978-0-8132-1533-4– via Google Books. In other words, the famous ‘I am a camera’ lines can be read, not as a manifesto, but as an excuse. Frost, Peter (31 December 2013). "Jean Ross: The Real Sally Bowles". Morning Star . Retrieved 18 June 2018. Frost's article is more or less a summary of the Oxford National Biography article by Peter Parker.

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Parker 2005, p.167: "He was principally heterosexual, but he enjoyed sex wherever he found it and was easily aroused by Isherwood's physical infatuation with him." In his memoirs, Isherwood recounts how "when Julie Harris was rehearsing for the part of Sally in the American production of I Am a Camera, [director] John van Druten and Christopher discussed with her the possibility that nearly all of Sally's sex life is imaginary; and they agreed that the part should be played so that the audience wouldn't be able to make up its mind, either." [47] Isherwood, in particular, was adamant that Sally not be portrayed as "a tart"—an avaricious prostitute. [48] In a letter to John Van Druten, Isherwood explained that Sally "is a little girl who has listened to what the grown-ups had said about tarts, and who was trying to copy those things." [48] Angus, Anne Margaret (6 May 1939). "Isherwood's Picture of Pre-Hitler Berlin". The Province (Saturdayed.). Vancouver, British Columbia. p.52 – via Newspapers.com. A few days later Sally pops round to tell him the end of the story. She had to identify him and he was terribly upset, said: ‘I thought you were my friend’. Amazingly, he turned out to be just 16 years old, so would have had to be tried in Juvenile Court but instead the doctors certified him and he was sent to a home. Hamilton, Gerald (1969). The Way It Was With Me. London, United Kingdom: Leslie Frewin. ISBN 978-0-09-096560-1– via Google Books.Isherwood 1976, p.2: "It was Berlin itself he was hungry to meet; the Berlin Wystan had promised him. To Christopher, Berlin meant Boys. At school, Christopher had fallen in love with many boys and had been yearningly romantic about them. At college he had at last managed to get into bed with one." As Berlin's daily scenes featured "poverty, unemployment, political demonstrations and street fighting between the forces of the extreme left and the extreme right," [3] Isherwood realised that he must flee the country. [4] Following the Enabling Act which cemented Hitler's power, Isherwood fled Germany and returned to England. [5] Afterwards, the Nazis shuttered Berlin's cabarets, [a] and many of Isherwood's friends fled abroad or perished in concentration camps. [6] These events served as the genesis for Isherwood's stories.

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Caudwell, Sarah (3 October 1986). "Reply to Berlin". New Statesman. London, United Kingdom. pp.28–29. Isherwood, Christopher (1962). Down There on a Visit. New York City: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-8166-3367-8– via Internet Archive.Goodbye To Berlin immediately signals its differences from Mr Norris Changes Trains. The main one is that the first-person narrator is not named William Bradshaw but Christopher Isherwood. Partly this is because the ‘novel’ seems much closer to being an actual diary. It gives rise to his landlady, Fraulein Schroeder’s, famous mispronunciation of his name, Herr Issyvoo.