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The American Isherwood
September 30, 2004The Huntington Library
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September 30, 2004 The American Isherwood
Overview
• American period: 1939-86• Novels, memoirs,
screenplays, lectures• The man: writer, advocate,
partner
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September 30, 2004 The American Isherwood
English Isherwood
• Novels All the Conspirators, 1928 The Memorial, 1932 Mr. Norris Changes Trains,
1935 Goodbye to Berlin, 1939
• Memoir Lions and Shadows, 1938
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September 30, 2004 The American Isherwood
English Isherwood
• Plays, with W. H. Auden The Dog Beneath the Skin,
1936 The Ascent of F6, 1937 On the Frontier, 1938
• Non-fiction, with W. H. Auden Journey to a War, 1939
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September 30, 2004 The American Isherwood
American Period
• 1939: arrives with W. H. Auden in US, settles in L.A.
• 1940: becomes devotee of Vedanta
• 1945: Prater Violet• 1946: becomes US citizen• 1951: I Am a Camera, play by
John Van Druten (film, 1955)
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American Period
• 1953: meets Don Bachardy• 1954: The World in the
Evening• 1954: Diane, screenplay
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September 30, 2004 The American Isherwood
American Period
Late Productive Years• 1959: first guest lectures at
Los Angeles State College• 1960: University of
California, Santa Barbara• 1962: Down There on a Visit• 1964: A Single Man
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September 30, 2004 The American Isherwood
American Period
• 1966: Cabaret, stage musical, by Kander, Ebb (film, 1972)
• 1969: A Meeting by the River, last novel
• 1971: Kathleen and Frank, biography-memoir
• 1976: Christopher and His Kind, memoir
• 1980: My Guru and His Disciple, memoir
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September 30, 2004 The American Isherwood
Reading Isherwood
• American Contemporaries Truman Capote, Tennessee
Williams, Gore Vidal, Paul Bowles
• American Influence Edmund White, Armistead
Maupin, Paul Monette
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September 30, 2004 The American Isherwood
Reading Isherwood
• Scholarship on Isherwood Gregory Woods (1998) David Bergman (1991, 2003)
• A Single Man (1964) “the founding text of modern
gay fiction.” Edmund White, 2004
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September 30, 2004 The American Isherwood
Lectures in California
• 1960: “A Writer and His World,” UC Santa Barbara
• 1963: “The Autobiography of My Books,” UC Berkeley
• 1965: eight-week course at UC Los Angles
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September 30, 2004 The American Isherwood
Lectures in California
“I believe that the function of the writer is to be, first and foremost, an individual. He writes, ultimately, out of his experience. And he should
think of himself as addressing a number of other individuals--not a
mass.”
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September 30, 2004 The American Isherwood
Lectures in California
“A Writer and His World”• Influences• Why Write at All?• What is the Nerve of the Novel?• A Writer and the Theater• A Writer and the Films• A Writer and Religion • A Last Lecture
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September 30, 2004 The American Isherwood
A Writer and His World
“My life has been mainly occupied in writing about people who
don’t fit into the social pattern. They may defy society or be
terrified of it, or they may lead lives of scandal and alienate
everybody, or they may be the gadflies of society, like
Socrates, or they may be true Outsiders.”
“Influences,” 1960
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September 30, 2004 The American Isherwood
A Writer and His World
“What stays with you in the Theater is character and
utterance. What stays with you in the cinema is image
and movement.”“The Theater is a box; the
cinema is a window.”• “The Writer and the Films,” 1960
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September 30, 2004 The American Isherwood
Lectures in California
“The Autobiography of My Books,” University of California, Berkely, April 1963
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September 30, 2004 The American Isherwood
The American Isherwood
“Don’t tell the young that ‘fame is nothing.’
The experience of celebrity has a great deal to teach,
and the young have a right to demand it.”
• “A Last Lecture,” 1960
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September 30, 2004 The American Isherwood
The American Isherwood
• Becoming an advocate• ACLU, anti-discrimination• Kathleen and Frank (1972)• Christopher and his Kind
(1976)
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September 30, 2004 The American Isherwood
The American Isherwood
• “I’m so completely habituated to living in America that everything else seems very remote to me now.” (1960)
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September 30, 2004 The American Isherwood
The American Isherwood
“…just as the waters of the ocean come flooding, darkening over the pools, so over George and the others in sleep come the waters of that other ocean--
that consciousness which is no one in particular but which
contains everyone and everything, past, present and future, and extends unbroken beyond the uttermost stars.”
• A Single Man (1964)
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September 30, 2004 The American Isherwood
The American Isherwood
“Christopher became defiant when he made the treatment of the homosexual a test by which every political party
must be judged. … ‘All right, we’ve heard your liberty
speech. Does that include us or doesn’t it?’”• Christopher and His Kind (1976)
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September 30, 2004 The American Isherwood
Special thanks to…
• The Huntington Library Robert Richie, director of researchSue Hodson, curator
• Lake Superior College, Duluth, Minnesota
• University of Minnesota Press Douglas Armato, director
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September 30, 2004 The American Isherwood