Prater Violet, Signed Presentation by Christopher Isherwood
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[Signed, Presentation] Isherwood, Christopher. Prater Violet. Second Printing. 1945. Book and dust jacket are both in very good minus condition—jacket shows minor soiling, light chipping, and minor tears. This copy was once property of the U.S. Naval Hospital with its bookstamp, but its most recent owner was Oscar Janiger, the famed Los Angeles psychiatrist who administered LSD therapy to A-List Hollywood personalities like Cary Grant. Isherwood was one of his patients, and he has inscribed this copy to Janiger and his wife, “For Oscar & Vijali, with love from Chris, September 19, 1982.”
Like much of Christopher Isherwood's fiction, this novella is not just based upon fact, it is cemented in it. It takes place after Isherwood fled Berlin due to the rise of Hitler. He is in London learning to be a screenwriter on a project directed by the great Berthold Viertel (Friedrich Bergmann in the book).
“You see, the film studio of today is really the palace of the sixteenth century. There one sees what Shakespeare saw: the absolute power of the tyrant, the courtiers, the flatterers, the jests, the cunningly ambitious intriguers.”
--Christopher Isherwood
Like much of Christopher Isherwood's fiction, this novella is not just based upon fact, it is cemented in it. It takes place after Isherwood fled Berlin due to the rise of Hitler. He is in London learning to be a screenwriter on a project directed by the great Berthold Viertel (Friedrich Bergmann in the book).
“You see, the film studio of today is really the palace of the sixteenth century. There one sees what Shakespeare saw: the absolute power of the tyrant, the courtiers, the flatterers, the jests, the cunningly ambitious intriguers.”
--Christopher Isherwood
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