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Prater violet, a novel, Christopher Isherwood

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Prater violet, a novel, Christopher Isherwood
Language
eng
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Literary text for sound recordings
fiction
Main title
Prater violet
Responsibility statement
Christopher Isherwood
Sub title
a novel
Summary
Isherwood's story centers on 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
Target audience
adult
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