Christopher Isherwood

Interest in Christopher Isherwood's work has grown since his death in 1986, and this interest has included a revisiting of his later work as well as his earlier writing from his time in 1930s Berlin, and the immense success of Mr Norris Changes Trains. His autobiographical writing has also found new readers for his work, as his diaries continue to be published. Traditionally study and explanation of Isherwood's work has always concentrated on the earlier work, and he has been seen largely as a writer of the 1930s, along with Auden, Spender and MacNeice. But Stephen Wade here introduces and explains aspects of Isherwood's later religious fiction as well as covering the Berlin writings. This study guide will expand the reader's knowledge of a writer who is increasingly being rated as one of the major novelists and memoirists of the last century.

About the author:

Stephen Wade first wrote on Isherwood for his doctorate, and published an earlier study (in 1991) intended to introduce readers and students to the full span of Isherwood's work. He has published widely as a critic and literary historian, being formerly a regular contributor to the journal Agenda; his other main works being Jewish American Literature Since 1945 (1999), In My Own Shire (2002)and The Imagination in Transit (1996). He also wrote the guide to W.H. Auden in this series. He is currently researching a book on Arthur Conan Doyle.

84  pages

ISBN: 978-1-906075-64-4