Christopher and His Kind

"he must never again give way to embarrassment, never deny the rights of his tribe, never apologize for its existence..." christopher and his kind provides a fascinating depiction of (privileged) gay life in western europe in the tinderbox years before ww2. what struck me thoroughly was how relativel......more

Immediately prior to reading Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood I read, and really enjoyed, Mr Norris Changes Trains, so I was excited to find out more about Christopher Isherwood’s life during the 1930s. Christopher and His Kind is an autobiographical account of Christopher Isherwood'......more

The most ironic part of being a reader of "Christopher and His Kind" is that one regrets having not read the rest of his oeuvre while simultaneously experiencing the dragging feeling that one really doesn't want to read the rest of his works. While this work is certainly speckled with important thou......more

The first book that I picked up after completing the last course for my English M.A. program was one that had been hovering near the top of my to-read list for a long while: Isherwood’s elegant autumnal autobiography Christopher and His Kind. If I had realized how much of it is devoted to clarifying......more

So many things I loved about this book- 1. Clever switching between first and third person throughout. He'll say "I think that Christopher should have realized bla bla bla" when speaking about his current opinions and thoughts on himself in the past. 2. I had previously read "The Berlin Stories" and l......more