Prater Violet, Christopher Isherwood
Prater Violet, Christopher Isherwood
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Prater Violet

Author: Christopher Isherwood

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Unabridged: 3 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/12/2010

Synopsis

Isherwood’s story centers on the production of the vacuous fictional melodrama Prater Violet, set in nineteenth-century Vienna, providing ironic counterpoint to tragic events as Hitler annexes the real Vienna of the 1930s. The novel features the vivid portraits of imperious, passionate, and witty Austrian director Friedrich Bergmann and his disciple, a genial young screenwriter: the fictionalized Christopher Isherwood.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit

Filmmaking is an odd occupation… “It’s such a bore,” I said brutally. “It’s so completely unreal. It has no relation to anything that ever happened anywhere. I can’t believe a word of it.” But nonetheless the script continues to be written… The world all around is in hectic commotion… The kettle is bo......more

Goodreads review by Jon

Atmospheric and encapsulated in situations that are often deeper than implied. This book is an interesting study about the connection between art, politics and personnel relationships. I really like the tone that this book sets; we are all kind of 'adrift' just looking for others who seem to be drif......more

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