![]() And the first lesson needs to be that you can’t eventually become compelling - you have to do it rather quickly. ![]() People believe that police and the press are covering up his death and that Nazis murdered him.Some element of this might be due to the fact that successful American novelist Olen Steinhauer ( The Tourist, The Cairo Affair), who created and wrote Berlin Station, is new to the TV game and unfolds the shady complexities of Berlin Station in a way that might have made sense on HBO years ago as a slow-build drama that eventually pays off - an exercise no longer allowed in this hyper-competitive landscape unless, say, you’re HBO. When Isherwood leaves Berlin for the last time, he hears news that Bernhard is dead. Later, Bernhard receives death threats in the mail. ![]() Bernard eventually opens up to Isherwood and shares intimate details of his childhood with him. Bernhard and Isherwood visit each other quite a bit Isherwood believes Bernhard has an arrogant way of talking to people. Bernhard manages the Landauers’ department store and feels like a slave to his position there. Natalia would one day like to live in Paris and study art. She becomes frustrated with Isherwood when she senses Isherwood isn’t sharing his sincere feelings and opinions with her. Natalia is interested in art and literature and is excited to talk with Isherwood about these things. In addition to Herr and Frau Landauer, Isherwood meets Natalia, their 18-year-old daughter, and her cousin, Bernhard. The Landauers own a department store, which was one of the shops that was attacked. Isherwood accompanies her to the police station to report the crime.Īfter a Nazi demonstration results in the smashing of several Jewish shop windows, Isherwood writes to Frau Landauer requesting to see her. She’s ended up sleeping with and accepting the marriage proposal of a 16-year-old con artist. After a fight over a magazine article, Sally calls Isherwood for help again. Isherwood helps Sally to get an abortion without telling the father of the child. Over the course of the chapter, Sally gets pregnant by a man she thought she loved and who she thought loved her. Sally is thankful that Isherwood isn’t in love with her because she believes it would spoil their friendship. Sally thinks she is an ideal kind of woman-the kind of woman who can steal any man from another woman, but can’t ultimately make him stay with her because once he’s gotten her, he will discover that it isn’t what he actually wanted all along. Sally has many affairs with many “marvelous” lovers and isn’t shy about sharing this information, though she regrets never being able to keep a man for very long. When Isherwood meets Sally Bowles through a mutual friend, Sally becomes like a bossy older sister to Isherwood, despite her young age. Kost is a prostitute whose best customer is a Japanese man who doesn’t speak much German and likes to lie in bed with her and listen to the gramophone. Bobby (whose real name Isherwood doesn’t know) is a flirty bartender who tickles and slaps Frl. Mayr gossip about the neighbors and consult fortunetellers. Chapter 1, “A Berlin Diary: Autumn 1930,” details life at Frl. Schroeder, Isherwood’s comical landlady, and we get to know the various eccentricities of the other tenants Isherwood shares a flat with in Berlin. Christopher Isherwood, our narrator, has moved to Germany to work on his novel. As a whole, the novel presents Berlin itself as a character, with its own personality and evolutions. Each chapter tends to focus on a main character, a particular location, or a certain family, and each chapter is connected to the rest. Goodbye to Berlin’s chapters are divided episodically, rather than strictly chronologically.
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