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Laddar... Lions And Shadows (utgåvan 2000)av Christopher Isherwood, Christopher Isherwood
VerksinformationLions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties av Christopher Isherwood
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Have you ever wanted to read about W.H. Auden poking at Christopher Isherwood's back acne? I didn't know I did, and you probably don't either! But you do, really! IDK, I love Isherwood and Auden - if I still played the Sims I'd make wee computer versions of them and they'd have amazing domestic adventures - and this account of their early relationship (and Isherwood's frittered youth) was like homoerotic literary crack for my weird craving. If you enjoyed their bitchy dialogue in the Beeb adaptation of 'Christopher and his Kind', then go read this, now. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
Isherwood's evocative and sensitive account of childhood and youth in the 1920s. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES FENTON Subtitled 'An education in the twenties', this work blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public school boy to Cambridge drop-out at large in London's Bohemia. It contains thinly veiled portraits of Isherwood's contemporaries Auden, Upward, and Spender, whose intimate friendships and cult of rebellion shaped the literary identity of England in the 1930s. Witty and outrageous, Isherwood pokes fun at the stars of his generation, above all himself, even as he testifies to their unique early gifts. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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The second reason I didn't quite connect with the book is that I found too much space was given to the fictional worlds and silly games that he invented with friends. It would be remiss not to describe them a bit, but there was too much detail for me and I must admit to skimming a few sections as a result.
Nevertheless, there are passages where Isherwood's arch humour shines and his prose hums along very nicely. I mostly read this because I had it on my shelf and I know it precedes [b:Christopher and His Kind|16809|Christopher and His Kind|Christopher Isherwood|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/books/1388202304s/16809.jpg|18493], but I might take a bit of a break from Isherwood before I read that book, because I don't want the hangover of some of the self-indulgent elements of Lions and Shadows to spoil it for me. ( )