Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood

Is life really a cabaret, old chum? (981 words)
by Nolly - written on 12/05/01, updated on 19/09/01 (Very useful, 3071 readings)
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shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.? (?Goodbye to Berlin?, Christopher Isherwood, Minerva (1989)) The novel is deliberately superficial. By this I mean that the writer and narrator does not shape events in the story, he merely describes what happens in the city and the people who inhabit it. So what is the novel like? The descriptions of city life are extremely vivid. The characters come to life, and interact well with one another. However, the one problem is that, when I read the novel again before writing this op, I still found it very difficult to ...