Goodbye to Berlin

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Stansky 1976: Isherwood was a "self-indulgent upper middle-class foreign tourist" who was "a good deal less dedicated to political passion than the legend has had it." 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. This has been interpreted and reinterpreted as the basis for an entire aesthetic, of the 1930s combination of man and technology, and so on. On a simpler interpretation, it flags up that the book will basically be a diary of things that happen, with little attempt to shape them into narratives. This became clear to me after reading the very long prose text of Journey To A War by Isherwood which really is a long, detailed transcription of a diary. Reading that made me see the diary just beneath the skin of this book. Hence it is not one sutained narrative but four or five sections, each of which chronicles his relationship with a particular group of people, namely the demi-mondaine Sally Bowles, the dirt poor Nowak family, the rich Landauer family, and his gay buddies Peter and Otto on holiday in the Baltic. Many Berlin cabarets located along the Kurfürstendamm avenue, an entertainment-vice district, had been marked for future destruction by Joseph Goebbels as early as 1928. [36]

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They are waiting for the results of a referendum about the government. Christopher looks around at all these people and thinks they’re doomed. York (who reveals he was cast because the producers were looking for a "Michael York type", meaning slightly quaint and shyly British) says people even questioned why he would want the role, which turned him into one of the biggest stars of the 1970s, underscoring how taboo it was for a mainstream US film to feature any suggestion of gay themes and culture. "All these people were saying I was so brave and that I was taking a terrible risk by playing the role, but I never thought that at all. My job is to represent humanity and [being gay] is a big part of humanity." Sally Bowles ( / b oʊ l z/) is a fictional character created by English-American novelist Christopher Isherwood and based upon 19-year-old cabaret singer Jean Ross. [1] The character debuted in Isherwood's 1937 novella Sally Bowles published by Hogarth Press, [2] and commentators have described the novella as "one of Isherwood's most accomplished pieces of writing." [2] The work was republished in the 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin and in the 1945 anthology The Berlin Stories.

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Christopher had been given in England a letter of introduction to the rich, Jewish Landauer family. He takes it up and meets 18-year-old Natalia Landauer, dining several times with her and her mother, before going out to the cinema etc. They are a wealthy, happy, civilised family. On one occasion he has dinner with the father and a cousin as well as Frau and Natalia. The father is intelligent, stayed in London 35 years earlier and did what we’d call sociological research on London slums (so that would be about 1896, year of the bleak novel A Child of the Jago by Arthur Morrison). Farina, William (2013). "Christopher Isherwood, Reporting from Berlin". The German Cabaret Legacy in American Popular Music. London: McFarland & Company. p.79. ISBN 978-0-7864-6863-8– via Google Books. Christopher’s thoughts and reactions are not recorded, we are left to imagine them and it is a complex imagining because theirs was a complex and strange relationship. Berlin diary (winter 1932-3) Liza Minnelli". Inside the Actors Studio. Season 12. Episode 6. Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts. 5 February 2006. Bravo. Johnstone, Iain (Autumn 1975). "The Real Sally Bowles". Folio. Washington, D.C.: American University. pp.33–34.

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The first novel focuses on the misadventures of Arthur Norris, a character based upon an unscrupulous businessman named Gerald Hamilton whom Isherwood met in the Weimar Republic. [1] The second novel recounts the travails of various Berlin denizens whose lives are directly or indirectly affected by the Nazis' rise to power. Isherwood based the character of Sally Bowles on teenage cabaret singer Jean Ross, Isherwood's intimate friend during his sojourn in Berlin. [2] Izzo 2005, p.144: "The abortion is a turning point in the narrator's relationship with Sally and also in his relationship to Berlin and to his writing". Clarke, Gerald (1988). Capote: A Biography. New York City: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-22811-0 . Retrieved 2 July 2022– via Google Books. Garebian, Keith (2011). The Making of Cabaret. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-973250-0– via Google Books. Parker, Peter (September 2004). "Ross, Jean Iris (1911–1973)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (onlineed.). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/74425 . Retrieved 11 February 2022. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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In a 1986 newspaper article published long after Jean Ross' death, her daughter Sarah Caudwell indicated that Ross disapproved of Minnelli's depiction of Sally Bowles in the 1972 film: "In the transformations of the novel for stage and cinema the characterisation of Sally has become progressively cruder" and, consequently, the literary character originally based on Ross had been transmogrified into a freakish vamp. [10] All women like men to be strong and decided and following out their careers. A woman wants to be motherly to a man and protect his weak side, but he must have a strong side too, which she can respect ... If you ever care for a woman, I don't advise you to let her see that you've got no ambition. Otherwise she'll get to despise you.” Now, about a hundred years since those days, and as the father of a teenage daughter the same age as Sally, I can see her behaviour as nerves and self-consciousness and an endless fishing for compliments and reassurance. I see her as pathetic and in need of help. Books: Fact and Fiction". Daily Herald (Thursdayed.). London. 2 March 1939. p.8 – via Newspapers.com.

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Due to her unyielding dislike of fascism, Ross was incensed that Isherwood had depicted her as thoughtlessly allied in her beliefs "with the attitudes which led to Dachau and Auschwitz". [49] In the early 21st century, some writers have argued the antisemitic remarks in "Sally Bowles" are a reflection of Isherwood's own much-documented racial prejudices. [e] [53] In Peter Parker's 2004 biography, he writes that Isherwood was "fairly anti-Semitic to a degree that required some emendations of the Berlin novels when they were republished after the war". [53] Isherwood 1976, p.63: "Jean moved into a room in the Nollendorfstrasse flat after she met Christopher, early in 1931."Christopher never saw Sally again. A little later he gets a postcard from Paris, then a brief one-liner from Rome, then that was that. This ‘story’ is his tribute to her and their friendship. But it’s not a story, is it? It’s a series of diary entries written up a bit. On Rügen Island (May 1931) Sally discovers she’s pregnant. Fraulein Schroeder knows someone who knows an abortionist. It’s a fairly up-class deal, she’s signed into a rest home with a medical notes that she’s too ill to have a baby. Chris visits every day. The couple of days after the operation she’s very low. Bit depressing. Although his stories about the nightlife of Weimar Berlin became commercially successful and secured his reputation as an author, Isherwood later denounced his writings. [5] In a 1956 essay, Isherwood lamented that he had not understood the suffering of the people which he depicted. [5]