2024-07-07
28 分钟The twentieth-century author Christopher Isherwood, made famous by his 1930s work in Berlin, approached his writing about queerness, politics and religion with frankness and wit. The writer repeatedly fictionalised himself and his friends in his novels. Katherine Bucknell, the editor of four volumes of Isherwood’s diaries and letters, explains that it was his mother’s own diaries that first introduce us to the character of Isherwood. Using a wealth of unpublished material, Bucknell reveals the drama and complexity of the author’s inner world in an epic new biography. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hello.
This is Meet the Writers.
I'm Georgina Godwin.
My guest today is an author, editor, and the founder of the W.H.
auden Society and director of the Christopher Isherwood Foundation.
She's written and edited more than a dozen books, including four novels.
She was born in Saigon, raised in Washington, D.C.
and now lives between London and Nantucket.
She regularly contributes to journals and newspapers, and she's the editor of Christopher Isherwood's Voluminous Diaries and has now published a monumental biography of the 20th century American novelist and playwright titled Christopher Isherwood Inside Out.
Catherine Bucknell.
Welcome to Meet the Writers.
Oh, thank you.
What a wowy introduction.
It's lovely, lovely to have you here.
And I know that Isherwood is a lifelong project for you.
This huge book that I've got in my hands is really the product of many years thinking and writing and being invol with this.
With this great author.
Let's talk about you, though, because you were born in Saigon.
Why was that?
Well, my parents were there.