Down There On A Visit

Down There On A Visit
by Christopher Isherwood

Down There On A Visit
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Author: Christopher Isherwood
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-03-01
ISBN: 0816633673
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press

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Book Review: Rarified Society
Summary: 4 Stars

These very interesting short stories depict a lifestyle, morality, and time that seems remote and long ago. Recollecting portions of his own life, master stylist Christopher Isherwood, also an early gay rights activist, creates readable chapters that focus on personality structure, his own introspection and the happy eccentrics he was fortunate enough to cultivate during his life. The first story, Mr. Lancaster details a visit with a prosaic distant relative after he, Isherwood, having just published his first novel and full of youthful hubris, has only disdain for the bourgeois accomplishments of this relative, a successful businessman. What is interesting is the parallel between Isherwood's rather self-satisfied inner experience and the older relatives also complacent sense of superiority. A second story is called Ambrose, and is the tragicomic tale of of a man living remotely on an island, wealthy and with many diversions, but scarred by prejudice and hostility during his years at Cambridge. The next story Paul has a Capote-esque quality--about a lively, international personality who was also essentially a male prostitute--his liveliness, his exotic adventures, and then his decline, addictions, occasional redemption through spirituality and abstinence from drugs, and finally his premature death from heart failure in the midst of a party. The stories are heartfelt, sophisticated, evocative, and by turns tragic and funny--and sadly somewhat difficult to obtain. Damon LaBarbera, PhD

Summary of Down There On A Visit

Christopher Isherwood originally intended Down There on a Visit to be part of The Lost, the unfinished epic novel that would also incorporate his famous Berlin Stories. Tracing many of the same themes as that earlier work, this novel is a bemused, sometimes acid portrait of people caught in private sexual hells of their own making. Its four episodes are connected by four narrators. All are called "Christopher Isherwood, " but each is a different character inhabiting a new setting: Berlin in 1928, the Greek Isles in 1933, London in 1938, and California in 1940. Down There on a Visit is a major work that shows Isherwood at the height of his literary powers.

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