"As much as any novelist I can think of, he was always in the middle of youth, trying to filter its bold vitality through the light of his sentences."
Brilliant essay on Isherwood by Andrew O'Hagan
@lrb.co.uk‘He wasn’t quite a social novelist, except he was. He wanted opposing parts of society to work together in his books, and these novels offer places where public and private life are seen magically to coalesce.’
Andrew O’Hagan on Christopher Isherwood: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Andrew O’Hagan · Disguise-Language: Christopher Isherwood’s Artifice
In a way, Isherwood was pre-acclimatised to American unreality. ‘He holds the future of the English novel in his...