Thursday, December 28, 2017

Mr Norris Changes Trains (Christopher Isherwood)

Christopher Isherwood
Mr Norris Changes Trains


Odd little tale of our narrator befriending Mr Norris on the train to Berlin and subsequently helping him out. Gives a picture of between War Berlin and all it's excesses and the parallel rise of the Nazis and subsequent suppression of such like behaviour (at least driving underground) and socialist activists. Read on my way to and in Berlin but doesn't really give a flavour of the place. Snippets about what it was like to be moneyed in the 30s maybe but probably similar to many European large cities. Interesting.

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