In
1976, more than 30 years after his time in Berlin, Christopher
Isherwood wrote his memoirs: Christopher and his kind. The book deals
not only with his Berlin experiences: after Berlin, Isherwood
traveled around Europe and eventually moved to California, where he
died in 1986.
In this book, he comments on his Berlin books, which were written in first person and where the narrator is presented in a somewhat impersonal way. Now Christopher "comes out". He assumes his homosexuality and explains that if he chosesto live in Berlin in the years 20-30, it was mainly because of the sexual freedom that reigned there.
"Paris", a metropolis often considered as the Mecca of romanticism, glamor, eroticism, not to say vice, "meant 'girls'", he explains. While Berlin meant 'boys'.
A few years ago, a film was made for television, based on Isherwood's memoirs.
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