Goodbye to Berlin is a short novel by Christopher Isherwood. It is often published together with The Last of Mr. Norris in a collection called The Berlin Stories.
The novel, a semiautobiographical account of Isherwood's time in 1930s Berlin, describes pre-Nazi Germany and the people he met.
Moving to Germany to work on his novel, Isherwood soon becomes involved with many differ...
Goodbye to Berlin is a short novel by Christopher Isherwood. It is often published together with The Last of Mr. Norris in a collection called The Berlin Stories.
The novel, a semiautobiographical account of Isherwood's time in 1930s Berlin, describes pre-Nazi Germany and the people he met.
Moving to Germany to work on his novel, Isherwood soon becomes involved with many different German citizens: The caring landlady, Frau. Shroeder; the "divinely decadent" Sally Bowles, a young English woman who sings in the local Cabaret; Natalia Laundauer, the rich, Jewish heiress of a prosperous family business; Peter and Otto, a couple struggling to accept their relationship in light of the rise of the Nazis.
The book, first published in 1939, ironically highlights the groups of people who would be most at risk from Nazi intimidation.
Born Aug. 26, 1904, High Lane, Cheshire, Eng. — died Jan. 4, 1986, Santa Monica, Calif., U.S. British-born U.S. writer.
Educated at Cambridge University, he became close friends with W.H. Auden, with whom he traveled and collaborated on three verse dramas, including The Ascent of F6 (1936). He lived in Berlin from 1929 to 1933; his two novels about this period, later published ...
Born Aug. 26, 1904, High Lane, Cheshire, Eng. — died Jan. 4, 1986, Santa Monica, Calif., U.S. British-born U.S. writer.
Educated at Cambridge University, he became close friends with W.H. Auden, with whom he traveled and collaborated on three verse dramas, including The Ascent of F6 (1936). He lived in Berlin from 1929 to 1933; his two novels about this period, later published together as The Berlin Stories (1946), inspired the play I Am a Camera (1951; film, 1955) and the musical Cabaret (1966; film, 1972). A pacifist, he moved to southern California at the beginning of World War II, where he taught and wrote screenplays. A follower of Swami Prabhavananda, he wrote and translated works on Indian Vedanta.
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A Berlin Diary (Autumn 1930)
Sally Bowles
On Ruegen Island (Summer 1931)
The Nowaks
The Landauers
A Berlin Diary (Winter 1932-3)
A Berlin Diary (Autumn 1930)
Sally Bowles
On Ruegen Island (Summer 1931)
The Nowaks
The Landauers
A Berlin Diary (Winter 1932-3)
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'My landlady wouldn't turn you out.'
Sally smiled vaguely, screwing up her nose:' How do you like the coffee, Chris darling.'
'I prefer it to Fritz's,' I said evasively.
Sally laughed:' Isn't Fritz marvellous? I adore him.I adore the way he says,"'I gave a dame."'
"'Hell, I gave a dame."' I tried to imitate Fritz. We both laughed. Sally lit another cigarette: she smoked the whole time. I notice how old her hands looked in the lamplight. They were nervous, veined and very thin - the hands of a middle-aged woman. The green finger-nails seemed not to belong to them at all; to have settled on them by chance - like hard, bright, ugly little beetles. (查看原文)
When I first went to China, it seemed to me that I was at home there, for the first time in my life...Perhaps, when I die, my spirit will be wafted to Peking. (查看原文)
Vintage Isherwood(共15册)，
这套丛书还有
《The World in the Evening》《Christopher and His Kind》《The Condor and the Cows》《Mr Norris Changes Trains》《A Single Man》
等
。
即使这种camera式的记录不太我的菜但还是被数度打动，为那些大人物小人物。最喜欢的果然还是sally，即使抛开电影的加持也是魅力溢出纸面，yes she is ‘decadent’, but she does everything so unapologetically. 谈吐讲究、把和“我”的谈心当作experiment的虚无Bernhard也很鲜活（和Natalia其实很像对照组），想看电影...即使这种camera式的记录不太我的菜但还是被数度打动，为那些大人物小人物。最喜欢的果然还是sally，即使抛开电影的加持也是魅力溢出纸面，yes she is ‘decadent’, but she does everything so unapologetically. 谈吐讲究、把和“我”的谈心当作experiment的虚无Bernhard也很鲜活（和Natalia其实很像对照组），想看电影改编。最后的日记好厉害，看似不带感情的流水账，也能从中感受到荒诞与苍凉，仿佛我也经历过那些走在街上边因为阳光微笑边问自己“真的发生了这些事吗”的恍然瞬间。(展开)
本人也不是什么翻译界的人士，只是很喜欢Chris。第一次看此书时是喜欢得不得了，知晓孙法理是翻译大家之后也是万分放心，可没想到此次回看，兴致勃勃地翻开第一页想看主角自称自己是照相机的名句时，却发现与原文的极大偏差。 原文：I am a camera with its shutter open, quit...
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2 有用 好养活 2018-02-03 09:15:30
不太懂为什么这部会有这么高的知名度，显然在他的作品里只能算二流，虽然小亮点不少，而且确实如奥威尔所说，是“Brilliant sketches of a society in decay”。
0 有用 金牌真香师 2014-08-21 18:18:00
不同类别的人物如何用自己的方式对抗全社会不可察觉不可对抗的崩塌，以营造纪实感为主的语言亮点不多。在人类即将被历史车轮碾压的前一秒的年代，看着他们为一己微不足道又大过天的痛苦绞尽脑汁，真不知作什么滋味。
0 有用 Oleaceae 2023-04-05 15:31:29 英国
sketchbook
0 有用 Juli 2011-04-07 05:36:02
Cabaret电影版拍得真好, 当然也多亏了John Kander的音乐，剧情改编不少，不过每次看书里写到Sally说my darling时Liza的脸就浮现在眼前，形象和气质都太像了。
0 有用 Doyle Frenger 2011-07-01 21:26:32
在自己goodbye to Beijing的时候读来很带感
0 有用 L'etranger 2024-04-02 09:55:23 浙江
就好像在魏玛共和时代的柏林和这些人一起居住了一番，隐隐可窥见于幽微处放大的隐秘孤独和山雨欲来的彷徨。
0 有用 couchpotato 2023-07-31 09:47:13 中国香港
即使这种camera式的记录不太我的菜但还是被数度打动，为那些大人物小人物。最喜欢的果然还是sally，即使抛开电影的加持也是魅力溢出纸面，yes she is ‘decadent’, but she does everything so unapologetically. 谈吐讲究、把和“我”的谈心当作experiment的虚无Bernhard也很鲜活（和Natalia其实很像对照组），想看电影... 即使这种camera式的记录不太我的菜但还是被数度打动，为那些大人物小人物。最喜欢的果然还是sally，即使抛开电影的加持也是魅力溢出纸面，yes she is ‘decadent’, but she does everything so unapologetically. 谈吐讲究、把和“我”的谈心当作experiment的虚无Bernhard也很鲜活（和Natalia其实很像对照组），想看电影改编。最后的日记好厉害，看似不带感情的流水账，也能从中感受到荒诞与苍凉，仿佛我也经历过那些走在街上边因为阳光微笑边问自己“真的发生了这些事吗”的恍然瞬间。 (展开)
0 有用 Oleaceae 2023-04-05 15:31:29 英国
sketchbook
0 有用 dersteppenwolf 2023-03-05 02:27:12 英国
似乎所有的nihilist都是Bernhard的结局……
0 有用 absmenthe 2023-01-04 06:12:38 法国
伦敦旅游买下这本书——越读越熟悉，读完后才发现自己已经读过中文版。Isherwood的语言太美，英语非母语者的我也总能感受到书中的机敏与悲凉的底色。