If there had been a circle of friends a hundred years ago, Christopher probably wouldn't have needed to write "he and his little buddy" in more than 200,000 words, just need to update the fragmented circle of friends every day.
Let's imagine who in his circle of friends is liking.
At that time, Virginia Woolf was a bit like the hostess of the "Mrs. Parlor" and a big star in the literary world. I don't know if you have found that many "red people" of that era need Woolf's endorsement, such as "having a close relationship with Woolf and his wife" ah "Woolf recommended", in fact, the reason is very simple, Woolf and his wife also run a publishing house. Although Woolf is also fighting for women's right to write, she said that women should have pens, paper and ink and have a room of their own, but in fact, she has more say than many literary youth. At that age, the novel was not what you wanted to write, you could write it if you wanted to. You also have to have an outlet, a hundred years ago, you have not been able to achieve online posting, circle of friends spit, Weibo long post.
When young literary young people talk about literature, it seems that they can't always get around one person- Maugham, which is left today, and when it comes to foreign literature in the literary circle, Maugham is also a proper celebrity, especially after Hollywood adapted his "Veil".
Foster, this may not be familiar to some people, but speaking of his masterpiece "Room with a View". "Howard Manor" also has a movie version, and at this time, even if you have not seen his work, there is always a thin impression.
In today's parlance, Christopher's circle of friends is all industry big names praising him. In other words, now where there are unprovoked likes, not to mention these red people, each like is extremely gold-
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="25" > so who is Christopher? </h1>
One of his best-known novels is "Farewell, Berlin", according to the data: Christopher Isherwood, as a novelist and playwright, has been widely praised by the British and American literary circles and Hollywood critics, and has been praised as "the best English prose writer", yes, many of Isherwood's works have been adapted into films, operas, and won many international awards. He was deeply influenced by a writer who I personally super-liked— Carson McCullers.
When it comes to Carson McCullers, it is impossible not to mention her work, remember her most famous work, The Heart is the Lonely Hunter? Later, many analyses said that the two mutes (the two protagonists) in the town were gay, of course, McCullers never directly admitted, let's talk about another "Reflection of Golden Eyes", and later many people put this book together with "Song of the Sad Cafe" to analyze the protagonist's "hermaphrodite" personality, which can also be said to be the story of bisexual characters, the reason why so many of this writer's works are not to illustrate, where there is such a simple mixed circle.
The big coffee who likes Christopher can rub each other's heat, but his real friends can only be people like him, or "the same kind" as his book title writes. The spiritual core of these writers has something in common, and in that small spiritual country, indeed, they are all of my race.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="25" > him and his kind</h1>
Although, Foster may not like Christopher so much, as can be seen from his autobiography, the former has also laughed at the author with a third person, but also known by the author, written out, it can be seen that these literary people, in fact, are also secretly poking and poking, like the very hair ring for you to see not to show him, all visible or private chat what is full of all kinds of careful thoughts, but between the two people are the same kind, these small pimples can be ignored.
This book is an autobiography, but if it is an autobiography, the reader will find that this is a strange personal use of the law? He wrote about Christopher's life, using "he", seemingly a third person describing a protagonist's story, but a "I" suddenly jumped out and began to comment.
When I first looked at it, I almost cried out "What the hell is this?" "Is Christopher a fictional character, is Isherwood, or is the author himself?" From this, we can see how narcissistic Christopher himself is, he writes the whole article is himself, but also to add drama to himself, memory can not add drama, just add drama to memory time, the present can not add drama, just add drama to the future.
However, this way of writing still has a very wonderful chemical reaction, what was Isherwood at that time, the future Isherwood to comment, just like we did not say anything "I can't forget this in my life", but it is not far to the "future", you have long forgotten what it is. Some words were written at that time and felt very satisfied, after ten years and twenty years will feel childish, and even feel that they were creating text garbage, "I" is naturally still "I", but in the fermentation of the years, "I" is not the "I" of that year, so there is nothing wrong with the "I" commenting on the "I" of the year, although, not necessarily this "old" Isherwood is much more mature than the year, but his introspection and doubt, the kind of stripping analysis of himself at that time, He even jumped out and said that the exaggerations and flashiness in his works were really courageous.
By the way, he also wrote the prototype of the characters in "Farewell, Berlin". As we all know, some famous artists hate others to analyze his works and characters, find prototypes in his own life, Christopher is not afraid, he tells you nakedly, those important people around me are the same people as me, they are gay, but they are not so single-minded, but also enjoy the opposite sex life, they are such a group of people, and they are afraid that you analyze what archetypes are not archetypals, he tells the reader very bluntly, Foster is a bit of a moralist feeling that confuses him. At least Foster laughed at him for not taking advantage of this game, after all, everyone was still mixed up in the literary circle.
No way, it is very difficult to be an artist and a homosexual, to meet the moral standards of the moment, but also to be yourself. In particular, during these years, Germany was brought to power by the Nazis, and the partner he had been involved in for a long time in his life was a German. The second half of the book describes how he tried to get Heinz out of Germany and what mistakes he made. In the end, Heinz was arrested.
Desperate, right? But he also writes in the book:
I missed not so much Heinz himself as I was with him. ...... What I want most is to get stronger and give protection, like a tree.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="25" > Christopher's "trolley problem."</h1>
Yes, writers also need to live, compared to those who disappear at every turn, mix the world, are disloyal, and bring all kinds of troubles and ask him for money, Heinz takes care of the writer's life, considerate him, comforts him, there seems to be no constraint between them, although there will be incidents of jealousy, but it does not hit the writer's soul, affecting his thoughts and writing, he is not even a person in the mixed literary circle, does not know how to write poetry, and the writer can think of his partner last time without the burden of thought. And that's human nature, anyway, I tried, in fact, not together, it doesn't seem to hurt so much.
But Christopher because of the lover proposed a "tram problem", which makes the whole book immediately sublimated not only to him and his lover, but also to people and people's kind, he gives more harsh and cruel conditions, he assumes that he holds the power of life and death of a Nazi army -
If you have a button, you can blow up a Nazi army with one click... Only Heinz can be an exception.
Christopher thought, "What if I knew that Heinz himself, infected by cowardice or morality, had become as bad as everyone else and had been involved in all the crimes of others?" Will I press the button? Christopher said without hesitation: No!
So if Heinz is killed in action, it will be other Nazis who will die, will it be pressed?
Christopher's answer was still not pressed.
"Once I refused to press the button because of Heinz, I couldn't press it again. Because everyone in this army could be someone's Heinz..."
He was his kind, they loved each other, he wanted to save him, but he tried unsuccessfully, and at the same time, he actually admitted that his efforts were somehow a gesture, but, on a human level, he had to make a moral choice to protect this impossible kind of person.
Man, it's that complicated.
Recommended to you, as a character autobiography, very, how to say, special.