Prater Violet
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Description
With one impatient phone call, a young Christopher Isherwood is drawn into the film industry.
On the other end of the line is temperamental Austrian director Friedrich Bergmann. Christopher's job is to rescue the script of an idiotic love story set in nineteenth-century Vienna, a film called Prater Violet. Meanwhile, in the real Vienna of 1934, the Austrian right crushes a socialist uprising. Bergmann is distraught; his prophecy of a coming war goes unheeded. As tensions on set grow, studio intrigues and competing egos threaten to derail the whole project, and Hitler's shadow lengthens over Europe.
'A masterly novella' Guardian
'A deliberate historical parable. Prater Violet resembles episodes in Goodbye to Berlin and keeps up the same high level of excellence' New Yorker
On the other end of the line is temperamental Austrian director Friedrich Bergmann. Christopher's job is to rescue the script of an idiotic love story set in nineteenth-century Vienna, a film called Prater Violet. Meanwhile, in the real Vienna of 1934, the Austrian right crushes a socialist uprising. Bergmann is distraught; his prophecy of a coming war goes unheeded. As tensions on set grow, studio intrigues and competing egos threaten to derail the whole project, and Hitler's shadow lengthens over Europe.
'A masterly novella' Guardian
'A deliberate historical parable. Prater Violet resembles episodes in Goodbye to Berlin and keeps up the same high level of excellence' New Yorker
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Novels
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Classics
Format
Softcover
Pages
144
Price
13.00 €
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Ein grossartiges Buch. Voller Weisheit, Schmerz, Liebe und Kreativität. Grossartig komponiert die Gegenübestellung des seichten, romantieserenden Films und des Umsturzes in Österreich in den 30ern. Das Harmlose Spiel vor dem Hintergrund des politischen Schreckens. Grossartig gezeichnete Charaktere und herrliche Dialoge!
Description
With one impatient phone call, a young Christopher Isherwood is drawn into the film industry.
On the other end of the line is temperamental Austrian director Friedrich Bergmann. Christopher's job is to rescue the script of an idiotic love story set in nineteenth-century Vienna, a film called Prater Violet. Meanwhile, in the real Vienna of 1934, the Austrian right crushes a socialist uprising. Bergmann is distraught; his prophecy of a coming war goes unheeded. As tensions on set grow, studio intrigues and competing egos threaten to derail the whole project, and Hitler's shadow lengthens over Europe.
'A masterly novella' Guardian
'A deliberate historical parable. Prater Violet resembles episodes in Goodbye to Berlin and keeps up the same high level of excellence' New Yorker
On the other end of the line is temperamental Austrian director Friedrich Bergmann. Christopher's job is to rescue the script of an idiotic love story set in nineteenth-century Vienna, a film called Prater Violet. Meanwhile, in the real Vienna of 1934, the Austrian right crushes a socialist uprising. Bergmann is distraught; his prophecy of a coming war goes unheeded. As tensions on set grow, studio intrigues and competing egos threaten to derail the whole project, and Hitler's shadow lengthens over Europe.
'A masterly novella' Guardian
'A deliberate historical parable. Prater Violet resembles episodes in Goodbye to Berlin and keeps up the same high level of excellence' New Yorker
Book Information
Main Genre
Novels
Sub Genre
Classics
Format
Softcover
Pages
144
Price
13.00 €
Posts
5