Response to Goodbye To Berlin
A Response to Goodbye to Berlin
“I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking” (Isherwood 1). This phrase comes from the first page of Christopher Isherwood’s most popular documentary styled novel, Goodbye to Berlin (1939). In this novel, Isherwood managed to establish a sort of “matter-of-fact” style by blending fact and fiction and achieving a naïve, honest style for the narrator. “The phrase “I am a camera” often appears in …
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