Prater Violet
Originally published in 1945, Christopher Isherwood's Prater Violet is a stingingly satirical novel about the film industry. It centers around the production of the vacuous fictional melodrama Prater Violet, set in nineteenth-century Vienna, providing an ironic counterpoint to tragic events as Hitle...
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
1945.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Isherwood, Christopher, |d 1904-1986. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Prater Violet / |c Christopher Isherwood. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Farrar, Straus and Giroux, |c 1945. | ||
| 300 | |a 127 pages | ||
| 520 | 0 | |a Originally published in 1945, Christopher Isherwood's Prater Violet is a stingingly satirical novel about the film industry. It centers around the production of the vacuous fictional melodrama Prater Violet, set in nineteenth-century Vienna, providing an ironic counterpoint to tragic events as Hitler annexes the real Vienna of the 1930s. The novel features vivid portraits of the imperious, passionate, and witty Austrian director Friedrich Bergmann and his disciple, a genial young screenwriter<U+2014>the fictionalized Christopher Isherwood. | |
| 650 | 0 | 0 | |a Motion picture industry |v Fiction. |
| 651 | 0 | |a London (England) |v Fiction. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Vienna (Austria) |v Fiction. | |
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