However, in the light of his work it is difficult to interpret his revolt as part of a wider and more significant movement. Isherwood himself was seen as a rebel who had put a stop to his bourgeois education and broken with English middle-class life. He played a prominent part among a group of writers who did not actually form a movement but were animated by the same romantic urge to infuse literature with a revolutionary spirit. In the Thirties he appeared to many as the potential interpreter of the human predicament in a socially and historically significant period, and he was still considered as a promising writer long after he had published what was to be his best writing. 1ġThe discrepancy between Isherwood’s reputation as an artist and his actual achievement was for some time a misleading element in the assessment of his work. You’re always sending postcards with ‘down here onĪ visit’ on them. You know, you really are a tourist, to your bones. 1 Christopher Isherwood, Down there on a Visit, London, 1962, p.
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