Prater Violet is the most charming novel I have read in a long time.
The novel features vivid portraits of the imperious, passionate, and witty Austrian director Friedrich Bergmann and his disciple, a genial young screenwriter--the fictionalized Christopher Isherwood..
It centers around the production of the vacuous fictional melodrama Prater Violet , set in nineteenth-century Vienna, providing an ironic counterpoint to tragic events as Hitler annexes the real Vienna of the 1930s. -- Diana Trilling Originally published in 1945, Christopher Isherwood\'s Prater Violet is a stingingly satirical novel about the film industry.
Prater Violet is the most charming novel I have read in a long time