A classic novel about the golden age of film.
It is based on Isherwood's experience of co-writing the 1934 Berthold Viertel film Little Friend.
'A deliberate historical parable. Prater Violet resembles 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.
- ISBN:
- 9780099561132
- 9780099561132
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Category:
- Contemporary fiction
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
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01-07-2012
- Publisher:
- Vintage Publishing
- Country of origin:
- United Kingdom
- Pages:
- 144
- Dimensions (mm):
- 198x130x10mm
- Weight:
- 0.11kg
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