Editions

Prater Violet

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099561132

  • Length: 144  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 9mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 106g

  • RRP: £8.99

Prater Violet

'A deliberate historical parable. Prater Violet resembles episodes in Goodbye to Berlin and keeps up the same high level of excellence' - Edmund Wilson

An impatient phone call from the temperamental Austrian director, Friedrich Bergmann, introduces a young Christopher Isherwood to the film industry. Isherwood's job is to rescue the script of an idiotic love story set in nineteenth-century Vienna, a film called Prater Violet. In the real Vienna of 1934 the Austrian Right crushes a socialist uprising. Bergmann is distraught and his prophecy of the coming war goes unheeded. As tensions on set grow, studio intrigues and competing egos threaten to derail the whole project.

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099561132

  • Length: 144  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 9mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 106g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • "That young man holds the future of the English novel in his hands"

    Somerset Maugham

  • "Isherwood’s prose fizzes and bubbles lightly like an alka-seltzer in water before sinking like a brick in the pit of your stomach. It sits with you and stays with you."

    Dust for Prints.com

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About the Author

Christopher Isherwood

Christopher Isherwood was born in 1904. He began to write at university and later moved to Berlin, where he gave English lessons to support himself. He witnessed first hand the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazi party in Germany and some of his best works, such as Mr. Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin, draw on these experiences. He created the character of Sally Bowles, later made famous as the heroine of the musical Cabaret. Isherwood travelled with W.H Auden to China in the late 1930s before going with him to America in 1939. He died on 4 January 1986. His novel A Single Man was recently made into an award-winning film by Tom Ford, starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore.

Christopher Isherwood

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