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'A deliberate historical parable. Prater Violet resembles episodes in Goodbye to Berlin and keeps up the same high level of excellence' - Edmund Wilson

"Prater Violet is the most charming novel I have read in a long time." --Diana Trilling

Originally published in 1945, Christopher Isherwood's Prater Violet is a stingingly satirical novel about the film industry. It centers around the production... Read Full Overview

Originally published in 1945, Prater Violet is a stingingly satirical novel about the film industry. It centers around the production of the vacuous fictional melodrama Prater Violet, set in nineteenth-century Vienna, providing ironic counterpoint to tragic events as Hitler annexes... Read Full Overview

Originally published in 1945, Prater Violet is a stingingly satirical novel about the film industry. It centers around the production of the vacuous fictional melodrama Prater Violet, set in nineteenth-century Vienna, providing ironic counterpoint to tragic events as Hitler annexes... Read Full Overview

Originally published in 1945, Prater Violet is a stingingly satirical novel about the film industry. It centers around the production of the vacuous fictional melodrama Prater Violet, set in nineteenth-century Vienna, providing ironic counterpoint to tragic events as Hitler annexes... Read Full Overview

Londres, ann es 1930. On tourne un film. Le r alisateur, Friedrich Bergmann, est un juif autrichien qui a fui Vienne menac e par le nazisme. Isherwood, crivain au succ s mod r , est charg d' crire le sc nario. L' norme pittoresque du cin aste, la r alisation toujours au bord... Read Full Overview