Christopher and His Kind

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Christopher and His Kind is Christopher Isherwood’s autobiographical memoir recounting his life in 1920s–30s Berlin and exploring his sexual identity and the gay subculture of the time.

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instanceOf autobiographical memoir
book
adaptationCountry United Kingdom
adaptationNetwork BBC Two
adaptationType television film
adaptedAs Christopher and His Kind self-linksurface differs
surface form: Christopher and His Kind (2011 film)
author Christopher Isherwood
chronologicalRelation revisits events depicted in Goodbye to Berlin
revisits events depicted in Mr Norris Changes Trains
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
describes Berlin cabaret culture
Christopher Isherwood’s life in Berlin
Isherwood’s sexual identity
gay male relationships
rise of Nazism
genre LGBT literature
autobiography
memoir
hasTheme exile
memory and retrospection
political upheaval
self-discovery
sexual freedom
influenced queer memoir genre
language English
literaryMovement Modernism
surface form: modernism
mainSubject 1930s Europe
Berlin
Christopher Isherwood
Weimar Republic
gay subculture
homosexuality
narrativePerspective first-person
notableFor frank depiction of homosexuality
revision of earlier fictionalized accounts of Berlin years
publicationDate 1976
publisher Eyre Methuen
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
relatedWork Goodbye to Berlin
Mr Norris Changes Trains
setting Berlin
Germany
timePeriodCovered 1929–1939
early 1930s
late 1920s

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Christopher Isherwood notableWork Christopher and His Kind
Christopher and His Kind adaptedAs Christopher and His Kind self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Christopher and His Kind (2011 film)
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