The Memorial Portrait of a Family Author:Christopher Isherwood The book in which Isherwood became Isherwood . . . — With The Memorial, Christopher Isherwood began his lifelong work of rewriting his own experiences into witty yet almost forensic portraits of modern society. Set in the aftermath of World War I, The Memorial portrays the dissolution of a tradition-bound English family. Cambridge student Eric Ve... more »rnon finds himself torn between his desire to emulate his heroic father, who led a life of quiet sacrifice before dying in the war, and his envy of his father?s great friend Edward Blake, who survived the war only to throw himself into gay life in Berlin and the pursuit of meaningless relationships.
Published in 1932, when Isherwood was twenty-eight years old, The Memorial is the immediate precursor to the first volume of the famous Berlin Stories, but it stands in its own right as the first book in which Isherwood really found his literary voice.
This is the beginning of a multiyear plan to reissue all of Isherwood?s best work, culminating with the publication of a definitive new biography in 2015.« less
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