He is clearly in love with her, though she has a succession of affairs, primarily with rich men. In the story, the hero/narrator, called Christopher Isherwood, though Fräulein Schroeder insists on calling him Herr Issyvoo, meets her through a mutual friend. She was based on Jean Ross, a Scottish woman who would become Claud Cockburn‘s second wife and her surname came from the writer Paul Bowles, whom Isherwood had recently met in Berlin. Sally Bowles is probably Isherwood’s greatest creation. Of the six stories, by far the best known is Sally Bowles, not least because it has been transposed to the theatre and the cinema, first as John van Druten’s play I Am A Camera (the second paragraph of the story reads I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking, a statement that turns to be quite inaccurate) and the film adapted from the play and then as the stage musical, Cabaret and the film of the musical. Norris Changes Trains, much of the novel revolves around Fräulein Schroeder’s rooming house and its occupants. Norris Changes Trains are all that remains of his scheme. He never completed it but this novel, which is, in fact, six linked but separate episodes, and Mr. Isherwood originally intended to write a huge episodic novel of pre-Hitler Berlin called The Lost. Home » England » Christopher Isherwood » Goodbye to Berlin Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin
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