Schroeder rents rooms in her flat to survive and the Narrator lives there while he supports himself by giving English lessons. We get to meet with Berliners in one of those boarding houses that were so frequent in those times. Between these two bookends, we’ll spend some time with Sally Bowles, The Nowaks, The Landauers and spend the summer 1931 On Ruegen Island with the Narrator. A contemporary reader immediately knows that the Narrator will picture Berlin during crucial years, the ones when the Nazis took power. Goodbye to Berlin opens with A Berlin Diary – Autumn 1930 and ends with A Berlin Diary – Winter 1932-3. I’ll call him the Narrator, to avoid any confusion between the writer and his literary doppelganger. The narrator is named after the author, but he claims in the foreword that there’s nothing to read into it and that “’Christopher Isherwood is a convenient ventriloquist’s dummy, nothing more”. They are in chronological order and feature characters that overlap from one piece to the other. It is composed of six pieces set in pre-WWII Berlin. Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood was published in 1938. Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood (1938) French title: Adieu à Berlin.
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