Prater Violet

Prater Violet

by Christopher Isherwood
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Publisher:
Random House
Genre:Experimental fiction
Language: en
Published:2012
ISBN13:9780099561132
ISBN10:0099561131

About the Book

WITH AN INTRODUCTION FROM TOM FORD 'A deliberate historical parable. Prater Violet resembles the episodes in Goodbye to Berlin and keeps up the same high level of excellence' Edmund Wilson An impatient phone call from the temperamental Austrian director, Friedrich Bergmann, introduces a young Christopher Isherwood to the film industry. Isherwood's job is to rescue the script of an idiotic love story set in nineteenth-century Vienna, a film called Prater Violet. In the real Vienna of 1934 the Austrian Right crushes a socialist uprising. Bergmann is distraught and his prophecy of the coming war goes unheeded. As tensions on set grow, studio intrigues and competing egos threaten to derail the whole project. See also: Goodbye to Berlin