Christopher and His Ilk
by J
About This Novel
"Christopher and His Kind" is the autobiographical masterpiece of the famous British-American novelist Christopher Isherwood. It was adapted into a film of the same name by the BBC, starring "Doctor Who" Matt Smith. The novel records Isherwood's experiences traveling in Europe in the 1930s. From the calm and marginal perspective of a "foreigner" and "minority", it records the chaos from the inception to the outbreak of World War II. It includes the apocalyptic scene of Berlin, which was seething with all kinds of evil, chaos, and violence under the shadow of the Nazis; a sweet but hopeless relationship with the worker boy Heinz; the battlefield experience of walking with Auden, life and death in China hanging by a thread; and interesting anecdotes in the literary and film circles during his travels in Europe, and his interactions with celebrities such as Maugham, Forster, Woolf, Thomas Mann's family, and Brecht. Isherwood is extremely good at capturing personality traits accurately, all of which form a unique character map unique to him. His works are richly autobiographical and constitute wonderful social satirical fables. Isherwood and the famous poet Auden were lifelong friends, and this book also records the unique bond between the two.
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