Auden and Isherwood: The Berlin Years

Drawing on much contemporary material, including Auden's fascinating unpublished diary, this book places personal experience in the context of the life of a great city: not only its political, artistic and cultural life, but the life of the streets, bars and caf� It presents portraits of figures, often fascinating in their own right, with whom Auden and Isherwood came into contact, and it demonstrates how, especially in Isherwood's fiction, the raw material of daily existence was transformed into art. The wide scope of this study, which ranges from poetry and cinema to street violence and prostitution, provides a richly detailed context for its account of two writers engaged in the process of self-definition.

Author: Norman Page
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 10/14/1998
Pages: 220
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.84h x 5.70w x 0.89d
ISBN: 9780312211738
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/20/1998 pg. 51
Library Journal 06/01/1998 pg. 110

About the Author
NORMAN PAGE is Emeritus Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Nottingham. He has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and has lectured in many parts of the world. His previous biographies include A.E. Housman: A Critical Biography and Tennyson: An Illustrated Life.