Unravelling One's Personal Myth
Christopher Isherwood's Autobiographical Strategies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3806149 |
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| Authors | Rose Kamel (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 161-175 |
| Publication date | 1982-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Biography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-4962 • E-ISSN: 1529-1456 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/bio.2010.0956 |
| OpenAlex | W2017109018 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Christopher and His Kind attempts to separate Isherwood's personal history from the autobiographical fiction he wrote in the 1930s. However, his strategies backfire because the brilliantly ambiguous "Herr Issyvoo" of The Berlin Stories differs little from the considerably older narrator of his life story. Ever the puppet master, with considerable irony, Isherwood manipulates, edits, and ultimately deconstructs the self he purports to recover
Aesthetics · Art · Irony · Literature · Mythology · Psychoanalysis · Evelyn Waugh and Hans Urs von Balthasar Studies · History · Psychology · Travel Writing and Literature
| Highly cited | No |
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