Who Is Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye To Berlin?

Goodbye to Berlin (1939) is a fictionalized memoir set in Weimar Germany and written by Christopher Ishwerwood. It is semi-autobiographical, following the authors travels through Berlin in the pre-nazi era and the people he meets along the way. During this time, the author was making a precarious living teaching English and becoming a firsthand witness to the Nazi's rise to power and the beginnings of the Third Reich. The book functions as a collection of short stories collected over the years of 1930 to 1933. It was also adapted into a play called “I am a Camera”, as well as the award-winning musical Cabaret. Isherwood himself takes on the role of the main character, and we see the novel's events and characters from his point of view. The characters focused on in this novel include the 19-year-old cabaret singer Sally Bowles, a struggling gay couple named Peter and Otto, a Jewish man named Bernard Landeur, and various other characters that the author encounters. Note that most, if not all, of these characters are of demographics that would have been especially vulnerable during Nazi Germany. He states that the four characters of Peter Wilkinson, Sally Bowles, Otto Newak, and Bernard Landeaur are
Christopher Isherwood's confident prose has very few instances of poetic metaphor or other writing devices. It is generally straightforward and could be enjoyed by a variety of readers of different reading levels. One unusual choice was the German dialogue – he frequently writes the German characters' dialogue in its original language without a translation. Some readers might find this distracting, but in most circumstances, it is easy to discern what the German dialogue means by inferring from the context in which it is spoken. Overall, I enjoyed the writing style – despite its culturally relevant subject matter of Nazi Germany, I think the way it is written would make it enjoyable for a variety of