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The Berlin Novels: "Mr Norris Changes Trains", "Goodbye to Berlin"

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"Mr Norris Changes Trains": The first of Christopher Isherwood's classic 'Berlin' novels, this portrays the encounter and growing friendship between young William Bradshaw and the urbane and mildly sinister Mr Norris. Piquant, witty and oblique, it vividly evokes the atmosphere of pre-war Berlin, and forcefully conveys an ironic political parable. "Goodbye to Berlin": The inspiration for the stage and screen musical Cabaret and for the play "I Am a Camera", this novel remains one of the most powerful of the century, a haunting evocation of the gathering storm of the Nazi terror. Told in a series of wry, detached and impressionistic vignettes, it is an unforgettable portrait of bohemian Berlin - a city and a world on the very brink of ruin.

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Published
14/01/1993

Publisher
Vintage

ISBN
9780749397029

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I bought my copy of these in Berlin in 1977. The stories have been a play and a film, or at least Goodbye to Berlin has, but a reading of the true works brings an even greater joy. They are quite amazingly immediate, even though Mr Norris Changes Trains was written first, in 1934, and Sally Bowles, as it was originally called before it was filmed as Cabaret, was written later, in 1937. Finally the complete Goodbye to Berlin was published in 1939. They are still perfect, marvellously told, as glittering and startling as the people who inhabit them as the people who inhabit them. Review by the late Dirk Bogarde, actor and writer (Kirkus UK)