Isherwood's fictional first person account of film-making. The Prater is a large park and amusement park in Vienna, a city important to characters in the novel for several reasons. Though Isherwood broke onto the literary scene as a novelist, he eventually worked in Hollywood as a screenwriter. In this novel, Isherwood comments on life, art, commercialization of art and Nazism.
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Originally published in 1945, PRATER VIOLET is a stingingly satirical novel about the film industry. It centers around the production of the vacuous fictional melodrama Prater Violet, set in nineteenth-century Vienna, providing ironic counterpoint to tragic events as Hitler annexes the real Vienna of the 1930s. The novel features the vivid portraits of imperious, passionate, and witty Austrian director Friedrich Bergmann and his disciple, a genial young screenwriter -- the fictionalized Christopher Isherwood.
- Autor: Christopher Isherwood
- Kategoria: literatura piękna
- Język: angielski
- ISBN: 000-00-0000-00-0
- Data wydania: 1945-01-01
- Liczba stron: 127
- Ocena: 0,0
- Wydawnictwo: Random House USA
