Isherwood on Writing The Lectures in California 1st Edition by Christopher Isherwood ISBN 0816661057 9780816661053

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ISBN 10: 0816661057

ISBN 13: 9780816661053 

Author: Christopher Isherwood 

In the 1960s, Christopher Isherwood gave an unprecedented series of lectures at California universities on the theme “A Writer and His World.” During this time Isherwood, who would liberate the memoir and become the founding father of modern gay writing, spoke openly for the first time about his craft—on writing for film, theater, and novels—and on spirituality. Isherwood on Writing brings these public addresses together to reveal a distinctly—and surprisingly—American Isherwood.

Given at a critical time in Isherwood’s career, these lectures mark the era when he turned from fiction to memoir. In free-flowing, wide-ranging discussions, he reflects on such topics as why writers write, what makes a novel great, and what influenced his own work. Isherwood talks about his working relationship with W. H. Auden; his literary friendships with E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Stephen Spender, Aldous Huxley, and Somerset Maugham; and his work in the film industry in London and Hollywood. He also explores uncharted territory in candid comments on his own work, something not contained in his diaries.

Isherwood on Writing uncovers an important and often-misunderstood time in Isherwood’s life in America. The lectures present, in James J. Berg’s words, “an example of a man, comfortable in his own sexuality and self, trying to talk about himself and his own life in a society that is not yet ready to hear the whole story.”

A major figure in twentieth-century fiction and the gay rights movement, Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986) is the author of many books, including A Single Man and Down There on a Visit, available from Minnesota.

James J. Berg is dean of liberal arts and sciences at Lake Superior College in Duluth, Minnesota. He is editor, with Chris Freeman, of The Isherwood Century: Essays on the Life and Work of Christopher Isherwood (winner of the Lambda Award) and Conversations with Christopher Isherwood.

Claude Summers is professor emeritus of English at the University of Michigan, Dearborn and author of many works, including Gay Fictions: Wilde to Stonewall.

Table of contents:

Foreword

Editor’s Acknowledgments

Introduction: The American Isherwood

Part I. A Writer and His World, 1960

Influences

Why Write at All?

What Is the Nerve of Interest in the Novel?

A Writer and the Theater

A Writer and the Films

A Writer and Religion

A Last Lecture

Part II. The Autobiography of My Books, 1963–65

All the Conspirators, The Memorial

The Berlin Stories

The Dog Beneath the Skin, The Ascent of F6, On the Frontier

Prater Violet

The World in the Evening

Down There on a Visit

Part III. Lecture Notes

A Writer and His World

Writers of the Thirties

The Novel As Experience

A Personal Statement

Voices of Novelists and Dramatists: Modern

What Is a Novel?

The Novel and the Novelist

Editor’s Notes

Index

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